grammatical particle

typically short and indeclinable word with a grammatical function but no clear part of speech
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grammatical particle

Summary

grammatical particle is a part of speech[1]. It draws 211 Wikipedia views per month (part_of_speech category, ranking #13 of 36).[2]

Key Facts

  • grammatical particle's instance of is recorded as part of speech[3].
  • grammatical particle is a type of function word[4].
  • grammatical particle's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Grammatical particles[5].
  • grammatical particle's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[6].
  • grammatical particle's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[7].
  • grammatical particle's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/particles[8].
  • grammatical particle's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#Particle[9].
  • grammatical particle's equivalent class is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133117987[10].
  • grammatical particle's different from is recorded as postfix[11].
  • grammatical particle's name is recorded as {'lang': 'sv', 'text': 'infinitivmärke'}[12].
  • grammatical particle's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#particle[13].

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Definition and Type

grammatical particle's instance of is recorded as part of speech[3]. It is a type of function word[4].

Why It Matters

grammatical particle draws 211 Wikipedia views per month (part_of_speech category, ranking #13 of 36).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . svenska.se. Retrieved . svenska.se. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'br', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'cv', 'de', '
    Gnd id → 4044781-9
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 28d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#Particle, http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133117987
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133117987"
  3. 9w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → particle
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: particle, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289951712|particle (#289951712)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0306883-castice-lingvistika
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0306883-castice-lingvistika, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → postfix
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → function word
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 241, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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