grammatical

English

Etymology

From Middle French grammatical, from Latin grammaticālis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: grəmăt'ĭkəl, IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈmætɪkəl/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

grammatical (comparative more grammatical, superlative most grammatical)

1. Not breaching any constraints of the grammar, or morpho-syntax, of the relevant language.

   Your writing is not grammatical enough for publication.

2. Of or pertaining to grammar.

   The writing was measured for both grammatical complexity and accuracy factors.

Synonyms

• grammatic

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “acceptable”): ungrammatical

Derived terms

• antegrammatical
• antigrammatical
• cryptogrammatical
• grammatical alternation
• grammatical aspect
• grammatical case
• grammatical category
• grammatical gender
• grammaticality
• grammaticalization
• grammatically
• grammatical mood
• grammaticalness
• grammatical person
• historical-grammatical
• historico-grammatical
• hypergrammatical
• lexicogrammatical
• metagrammatical
• neogrammatical
• nongrammatical
• paragrammatical
• subgrammatical

 

Translations

acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar

• Afrikaans: grammatikaal (af)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: քերականորեն ճիշտ (kʻerakanoren čišt)
• Belarusian: граматы́чны (hramatýčny)
• Catalan: gramatical (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通順／通顺 (zh) (tōngshùn), 無語病的／无语病的 (wú yǔbìng de)

• Czech: gramatický (cs)
• Danish: grammatisk, grammatikalsk
• Dutch: grammaticaal (nl)
• Esperanto: laŭgramatika
• Finnish: kieliopillinen (fi)
• French: grammatical (fr)
• Galician: gramatical (gl)
• Georgian: გრამატიკული (gramaṭiḳuli), სწორი (sc̣ori), გრამატიკულად სწორი (gramaṭiḳulad sc̣ori), მართებული (martebuli), გრამატიკულად მართებული (gramaṭiḳulad martebuli)
• German: grammatisch (de), grammatikalisch (de); (but usually grammatisch (de) korrekt (de) / richtig (de))
• Greek: γραμματικός (el) m (grammatikós)

  Ancient Greek: γραμματικός m (grammatikós)

• Hebrew: דִקְדוּקִי m (diqduqí)
• Hungarian: nyelvtanilag/nyelvileg helyes, jól formált
• Icelandic: grammatískur n
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: grammaticālis
• Lombard: gramatical
• Malay: gramatis
• Manx: grammeydagh
• Norman: granmatical
• Polish: gramatyczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: gramatical (pt), gramático (pt)
• Romanian: gramatical (ro)
• Russian: граммати́ческий (ru) (grammatíčeskij)
• Slovene: slóvničen
• Spanish: gramatical (es)
• Swedish: grammatisk (sv)
• Thai: ตามไวยากรณ์ (dtaam waiyaagon)
• Ukrainian: грамати́чний (hramatýčnyj)
• Vehes: gramatical
• Yiddish: גראַמאַטיש (gramatish)

of or pertaining to grammar

• Afrikaans: grammatikaal (af)
• Armenian: քերականական (hy) (kʻerakanakan)
• Belarusian: граматы́чны (hramatýčny)
• Breton: yezhadurel (br)
• Danish: grammatisk, grammatikalsk
• Dutch: grammaticaal (nl)
• Esperanto: gramatika
• Finnish: kieliopillinen (fi), kielioppi-
• Georgian: გრამატიკული (gramaṭiḳuli)
• German: grammatisch (de); grammatikalisch (de)
• Greek: γραμματικός (el) m (grammatikós)
• Hebrew: דִּקְדּוּקִי
• Hungarian: nyelvtani (hu)
• Icelandic: grammatískur n
• Latin: grammaticālis
• Low German:

  German Low German: grammatisch

• Manx: grammeydagh
• Norman: granmatical
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grammatisk (no)

  Nynorsk: grammatisk

• Polish: gramatyczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: gramático (pt), gramatical (pt)
• Romanian: gramatical (ro)
• Russian: граммати́ческий (ru) (grammatíčeskij)
• Spanish: gramático
• Ukrainian: грамати́чний (hramatýčnyj)
• Yiddish: גראַמאַטיש (gramatish)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French grammatical, from Late Latin grammaticālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal/, /ɡʁam.ma.ti.kal/

• Audio (Paris):

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Adjective

grammatical (feminine grammaticale, masculine plural grammaticaux, feminine plural grammaticales)

1. grammatical

   Antonym: agrammatical

Derived terms

• cas grammatical
• grammaticalement
• mot grammatical
• sujet grammatical

Related terms

• grammaire
• grammairien

Further reading

• “grammatical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Adjective

grammatical m

1. Alternative form of granmatical

Portuguese

Adjective

grammatical m or f (plural grammaticais)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of gramatical.