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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sentence-final particle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables
sen-tence--fi-nal -par-ti-cle
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
8
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a word class that occurs at the end of a sentence or utterance that does not carry relational meaning, but may indicate linguistic modality, register or pragmatics

Etymology

From sentence + final + particle.

Inflected Forms

sentence-final particles (plural)

Phrases

modal particle

Frequently Paired Words

modal particle

Questions

What does sentence-final particle mean?
a word class that occurs at the end of a sentence or utterance that does not carry relational meaning, but may indicate linguistic modality, register or pragmatics
Where does sentence-final particle come from?
From sentence + final + particle.

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