Function word

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In linguistics, function words (also called functors) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships among other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker.

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