Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

donkey sentence

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

Syllables: don-key sen-tence
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sentence that contains a pronoun with clear meaning (bound semantically) but whose syntactic role poses a challenge.

Inflected Forms

donkey sentences (plural)

Phrases

donkey anaphora donkey pronoun

Frequently Paired Words

donkey anaphora donkey pronoun

Questions

What does donkey sentence mean?: A sentence that contains a pronoun with clear meaning (bound semantically) but whose syntactic role poses a challenge.

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