catégorie grammaticale

Definitions of catégorie grammaticale
  1. noun
    (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
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    cas grammatical
    nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
    nombre
    the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)
    personne
    a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
    temps
    a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
    nominatif
    the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
    cas indirect, cas oblique
    any grammatical case other than the nominative
    présent
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking
    imparfait, passé
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
    futur
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
    imparfait
    a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
    imparfait, parfait, passé
    a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
    type of:
    catégorie, classe, famille
    a collection of things sharing a common attribute
  2. noun
    one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
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    nom
    the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
    verbe
    the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
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