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nounminimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful unitstype of:
Definition that contains morpheme
- ending the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- termination the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- pluralise mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural
- agglutinate string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
- pluralize mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural
- classifier a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs
- free morpheme a morpheme that can occur alone
- morphophoneme (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
- sandhi the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)
- bound form a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns