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morpheme

/ˈmɔː.fiːm/

Traduction: Nom désignant la plus petite unité significative d'une langue, qui ne peut pas être divisée en composants significatifs plus petits.

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noun

/ˈmɔː.fiːm/C1formalscientific
  • frNom désignant la plus petite unité significative d'une langue, qui ne peut pas être divisée en composants significatifs plus petits.

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.

    frPlus petite unité porteuse de sens

    • 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.
Formes
  • morphemes plural form
  • morphemes' possessive plural form
  • morpheme's possessive singular form