Appendix:Glossary: Difference between revisions

; {{anchor|depersonal}}depersonal

: In {{language name|rad}} grammar, depersonalisation refers to the morphosyntactic phenomenon of verbs losing their {{glossary|person|personal}} {{glossary|conjugation|endings}} to preceding conjunctions or particles, thus carrying only {{glossary|number}} φ-features. They are typically listed as their own forms in tables. Not to be confused with {{glossary|impersonal|impersonal verbs}}.

==G==

; {{anchor|noun}}noun

: A word that refers to a person (such as an ''{{eng|actress}}''), a place, a physical thing (such as ''{{eng|wood}}''), or concept (such as ''{{eng|beauty}}'', ''{{eng|joy}}'', or ''{{eng|time}}''). See also {{glossary|countable}}, {{glossary|uncountable}} and {{glossary|plural}}.

==P==

; {{anchor|part_of_speech}}part of speech

: The category that a word belongs to, with respect to how it's used as part of phrases and sentences. Examples are {{glossary|noun|nouns}}, {{glossary|adjective|adjectives}} and {{glossary|verb|verbs}}. The part of speech is inherent in the word itself, and is independent of any specific role that the word may have within any given sentence (e.g. subject, direct object). Words may belong to more than one part of speech: English ''{{eng|this}}'' is both a {{glossary|determiner}} and a {{glossary|pronoun}}, while ''{{eng|coat}}'' is both a noun and a verb.

; {{anchor|pronoun}}pronoun

: A {{glossary|part of speech}} that acts as a substitute for a {{glossary|noun}} or noun phrase and refers to a topic of the discussion. Pronouns can refer to a participant in the discussion and can be used instead of a person's name, such as with the pronouns ''{{eng|I}}'' and ''{{eng|you}}''. Other pronouns, such as ''{{eng|he}}'', ''{{eng|she}}'', and ''{{eng|it}}'', can be used to refer to other people or objects that have already been mentioned without repeating their names.

==S==

; {{anchor|synonym}}synonym

: A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase. Contrast {{glossary|antonym}}.

==U==

; {{anchor|uncountable}}uncountable

: A {{glossary|noun}} that cannot be used freely with numbers or the {{glossary|indefinite}} {{glossary|article}}, and which therefore usually takes no {{glossary|plural}} form. For example, the English noun ''{{eng|information}}'' is a mass noun, and at least in its principal senses is uncountable in most varieties of English. For those senses, we cannot say that we have *one information, nor that we have *many information (or *many informations). Many mass noun senses often have corresponding plural {{glossary|countable|count}} senses that denote types of the mass sense, instances of the mass sense, or portions (servings) of the mass sense. For example, the main sense of ''{{eng|butter}}'' is the uncountable sense, so the plural form butters is seldom used, although it occasionally is used to mean "types of butter" (''many {{eng|herb butter|herb butters}} contain garlic'') or "[packets of] butter". Compare also other implicit references to a container and the portion/serving that it contains (''get me a water, order two sodas, have a few beers''). Many languages do not distinguish between countable and uncountable nouns. {{glossary|antonym|Antonym}}: {{glossary|countable}} or count noun.