function word

Noun

 * 1)  A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.

Translations

 * Arabic: كَلِمَة وَظِيفِيَّة
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, kieliopillinen sana
 * French:, mot grammatical
 * German:, ,
 * Hindi:
 * Italian: parola vuota
 * Japanese: 機能語
 * Korean: 문법형태소
 * Polish: funktor
 * Portuguese: palavra gramatical
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: palabra funcional, palabra gramatical, palabra cenemática
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, funktionsord
 * Welsh: gair ffwythiannol