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accusative case

An inflected form that marks the word as the object of the sentence.

acronym

A special type of shortening which takes the first sound from each of several words and makes a new word from those initial sounds.

adjectif

A part of speech that describes properties of nouns.

adverb

A part of speech that describes properties of verbs.

Affix

A bound morpheme that specifies a certain aspect of the situation evoked by the root morpheme.

allomorph

A phonetic variant of a morpheme.

article

A part of speech that is used to link nouns to the broader context of speech.

aspect

A verbal category that specifies the way of viewing the internal temporal structure denoted by a verb (simple, progressive, perfect).