Definition von function word im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, such as prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions
A word, such as a preposition, a conjunction, or an article, that has little semantic content of its own and chiefly indicates a grammatical relationship. Also called form word, functor. a word that does not mean anything on its own, but shows the relationship between other words in a sentence, for example words such as 'but' or 'if'
a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
{i} word that indicates mainly grammatical relationship (such as auxiliary verb, preposition or conjunction), form word