morpheme

• Unidad mínima de significado o función gramatical en una lengua, que no puede dividirse en unidades significativas más pequeñas.

A noun referring to the smallest meaningful unit in a language that cannot be further divided into smaller meaningful components.

1. Smallest meaningful unitC1formal

   The smallest grammatical unit in a language that carries meaning and cannot be further divided into smaller meaningful parts.

   Morfema (unidad mínima con significado)

   • The word 'unhappiness' contains three morphemes: 'un-', 'happy', and '-ness'.
   • A morpheme can be a whole word, like 'cat', or a part of a word, like the suffix '-ed'.
   • Linguists analyze how morphemes combine to form complex words.