Get to know Agglutinative better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like polysynthetic or synthetic.
Agglutinative in a sentence
Agglutinative meaning
- Sticky, tacky, adhesive.
- Having words derived by combining parts, each with a separate meaning.
Synonyms of Agglutinative
Using Agglutinative
- The main meaning on this page is: Sticky, tacky, adhesive. | Having words derived by combining parts, each with a separate meaning.
- Useful related words include: polysynthetic, synthetic, agglutinate, adhesive.
- In the example corpus, agglutinative often appears in combinations such as: agglutinative language, an agglutinative, the agglutinative.
Context around Agglutinative
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Agglutinative
- In this selection, "agglutinative" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, see, language, morphology and languages stand out and add context to how "agglutinative" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include agglutinative constructions the and also the agglutinative nature of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "agglutinative" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with agglutinative
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The item-and-arrangement approach fits very naturally with agglutinative languages. (11 words)
Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest common example of a word formed by agglutinative construction. (13 words)
Several scholars maintain that structural analysis indicates that an agglutinative language underlies the script. (14 words)
Frequently mentioned is Esperanto's agglutinative morphology based on invariant morphemes, and the subsequent lack of ablaut (internal inflection of its roots ), which Zamenhof himself thought would prove alien to non-Indo-European language speakers. (35 words)
Japanese is an agglutinative language distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary indicating the relative status of speaker and listener. (32 words)
A considerable amount of Babylonian literature was translated from Sumerian originals, and the language of religion and law long continued to be written in the old agglutinative language of Sumer. (30 words)
Example sentences (17)
A considerable amount of Babylonian literature was translated from Sumerian originals, and the language of religion and law long continued to be written in the old agglutinative language of Sumer.
Agglutinative constructions The English language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes.
Also, the agglutinative nature of Inuit language meant that names seemed long and were difficult for southern bureaucrats and missionaries to pronounce.
Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest common example of a word formed by agglutinative construction.
As Malayalam is an agglutinative language, it is difficult to delineate the cases strictly and determine how many there are, although seven or eight is the generally accepted number.
But, the agglutinative structure of these languages allows almost infinite combinations of prefixes and suffices to these roots - so 'snow' can form as many 'words' as any other root.
Frequently mentioned is Esperanto's agglutinative morphology based on invariant morphemes, and the subsequent lack of ablaut (internal inflection of its roots ), which Zamenhof himself thought would prove alien to non-Indo-European language speakers.
Furthermore, they argued that many of the typological features of the supposed Altaic languages, such as agglutinative morphology and subject–object–verb (SOV) word order, usually simultaneously occur in languages.
Grammar The grammar is based on that of typical European languages, but with an agglutinative character: grammatical inflections are indicated by stringing together separate affixes for each element of meaning.
It is an agglutinative language ; in other words, morphemes ("units of meaning") are added together to create words, unlike analytic languages where morphemes are purely added together to create sentences.
Japanese is an agglutinative language distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary indicating the relative status of speaker and listener.
Several scholars maintain that structural analysis indicates that an agglutinative language underlies the script.
The agglutinative secondary case endings in the two languages likewise stem from different sources, showing parallel development of the secondary case system after the Proto-Tocharian period.
The item-and-arrangement approach fits very naturally with agglutinative languages.
The opposite of fusional languages are agglutinative languages which construct words by stringing morphemes together in chains, but with each morpheme as a discrete semantic unit.
The Uyghur language is an agglutinative language and has a subject-object-verb word order.
They were invented to show, in a somewhat facetious way, the ability of the language to form long words (see agglutinative language ).
Common combinations with agglutinative
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: