PARTICLE
,
which may be inseparable or separable from the stem, e.g. betala, pay,
but köra om/omköra, overtake.
C
ONGRUENCE
(=
AGREEMENT
)
C
ONJUGATION
denotes the way a verb is inflected, its pattern of endings,
and also the different groups of verbs with the same endings, e.g. past
tenses in: Conj. I kalla-de, Conj. IIb köp-te, Conj. III bo-dde.
C
OPULAR
verbs (or copulas) link the noun or adjective complement to
the subject, e.g. Han är lycklig, He is happy; Eva blev läkare, Eva became
a doctor; Sven blev besviken, Sven was disappointed.
C
OPULATIVE
means ‘linking’ (see
COPULAR
).
C
ORRELATIVE
is the word or phrase that a pronoun replaces or refers to,
e.g. Filmen is replaced by som in Filmen som vi såg var urfånig, The
film that we saw was really silly.
Linguistic
terms
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C
OUNT NOUN
is a noun that describes an individual countable entity and
therefore usually possesses a plural form, e.g. bok – böcker, book-s;