Word Category Abbreviations
Here is a list of all word category abbreviations in the dictionary, and what they mean:
adj | adjective | describes a noun and follows the connectors më, të ‘that, who’ |
adv | adverb | describes a verb |
con | connector | joins clauses, phrases or sentences |
dem | demonstrative | points to or shows which noun is talked about |
exp | expression | a word that is a sentence by itself |
n | noun | a person, animal, place, thing, or idea |
n.per | noun person | a word used as a person noun |
n.pl | noun plural | a plural noun that has no singular form |
n.pos | noun possessed | a noun that is always possessed |
n.sg | noun singular | a singular noun that has no plural form |
num | number | tells how many of a noun there are |
part | particle | a word that has a special use |
prep | preposition | introduces a noun phrase that describes a previous action |
pron.com | pronoun complete | shows which person does a complete action |
pron.dem | pronoun demonstrative | points to and takes the place of a noun |
pron.hab | pronoun habitual | shows which person regularly does an action |
pron.inf | pronoun infinitive | shows which person does an action after a previous action |
pron.obj | pronoun object | takes the place of a noun that receives the action |
pron.posiv | pronoun possessive | takes the place of a possessor and possessed noun |
pron.pos | pronoun possessor | takes the place of a possessor noun |
pron.prep | pronoun prepositional | takes the place of a noun introduced by a preposition |
pron.refl | pronoun reflexive | shows that a noun does and receives the action |
pron.res | pronoun result | shows which person does a resulting action |
pron.sub | pronoun subject | takes the place of a noun that does the action |
pron.sub.aft | pronoun subject after verb | takes the place of a noun after a verb that does the action |
quan | quantity | describes the amount of a noun |
ques | question word | asks a question |
v | verb | an action that can be transitive (have an object) or intransitive (without an object) without a change in verb form |
v.in | intranstive verb | a verb that does not have an object |
v.tr | transitive verb | a verb that can have an object |
v.n | verbal noun | a verb that is used as a noun |