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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

系词的

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: xìcí de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Copulative/ˈkɒp.jʊ.lə.tɪv/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"系动词用于连接主语和表语。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Serving to connect words, clauses, or concepts, or specifically relating to a verb that links the subject of a sentence to a complement.

    "In the sentence 'she is happy', the verb 'is' functions as a copulative verb."
As noun
  1. 1

    A copulative word or verb, such as 'be' or 'seem'.

    "Grammarians often debate the precise classification of certain verbs as true copulatives."
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Synonyms (2)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin word 'copulativus', originating from 'copulare' meaning to link or connect, which stems from 'copula' (a bond or tie). Entering English in the 15th century, the term initially functioned broadly in logic and grammar to describe elements that join other propositions or linguistic units together.

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