clause

Etymology
From, , borrowed from , from (Latin diminutive ), from , past participle of. See, its doublet.

Noun

 * 1)  A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
 * 2)  A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent.
 * 3)  A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
 * 1)  A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.

Usage notes

 * In “When it got dark, they went back into the house”, “When it got dark” is a dependent clause within the complete sentence. The independent clause “they went back into the house” could stand alone as a sentence, whereas the dependent clause could not.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُرَكَّبٌ إِسْنَادِيّ
 * Bulgarian: подчинено изречение
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: clásal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: гишүүн өгүүлбэр
 * Persian: فراکرد
 * Polish: zdanie składowe
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: clàs
 * Tagalog: sugnay


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Catalan: clàusula
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: clásal
 * Japanese:
 * Norman: proposition
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: clàs
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sugnay
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: بَنْد
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: clàusula
 * Danish: klausul
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, sopimusehto,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: clásal, foráil, agús
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: пункт,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).

Etymology
From, borrowed from.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) sentence,
 * 2) statement, line of a text
 * 3) writing, text, document, letter
 * 4) A section or portion of a text; a part of a series of quotes
 * 5)  A, term, or consideration; a section in a legal document.