hyphen

A punctuation mark (-) used to join words or parts of words, or to indicate a word break at the end of a line.

• 🇷🇺Знак пунктуации (-), используемый для соединения слов или частей слов, а также для обозначения переноса слова в конце строки.

1. Punctuation mark B1 formal

   A short horizontal line (-) used to join words or parts of words.

   • Use a hyphen in compound words like 'mother-in-law'.
   • The hyphen is often used to connect two adjectives before a noun.
   • Make sure to place a hyphen between the numbers in a date range.

   🇷🇺Дефис

• hyphens plural form
• hyphens' possessive plural form
• hyphen's possessive singular form

A verb meaning to join or connect words or syllables with a hyphen.

• 🇷🇺Глагол, означающий соединять или связывать слова или слоги с помощью дефиса.

1. Join with a hyphen B2 formal

   To connect two words or parts of a word using a hyphen.

   • You should hyphenate the compound adjective 'well-known'.
   • The editor decided to hyphen the two words together.
   • In this style guide, we hyphen multi-word terms.

   🇷🇺Соединять дефисом

   Синонимы: hyphenate

   Антонимы: disjoindivideseparate

• hyphened past participle
• hyphened past simple
• hyphening present participle
• hyphens third person singular