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)

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

   Synonym: grammatic

   Antonyms: ungrammatical, agrammatical, ungrammatic

   Coordinate term: idiomatic

   Your writing in English is not grammatical enough for publication, so we will hire an editor to fix it where necessary while preserving the intended meaning.

   These unidiomatic utterances are easily comprehensible but are not grammatical.

4. Of or pertaining to grammar.

   Synonym: grammatic

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

Derived terms

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

Translations

acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar

• Afrikaans: grammatikaal (af)
• Albanian: gramatikor (sq)
• 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 (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of gramatical.