Example sentences for: morpheme

How can you use “morpheme” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • , the division into morphemes in Spanish is tamal-es whereas English-speakers took it to be tamale-s ). English has both frijol and frijole , the latter of which may be explained in the same way: English-speakers borrowed Spanish plural frijoles (whose singular is frijol ), from which they back-formed a new singular, frijole (again, the morpheme division in Spanish is frijol-es whereas certain English-speakers took it to be frijole-s ). English frijol , on the other hand, is derived straightforwardly from the Spanish singular.

  • Chinaman is nothing but a calque of zhongguo ren , morpheme for morpheme Chinaman , and Polak is simply Pole in Polish.

  • Everything except this memorable portion of the word is then dropped, and a new morpheme is substituted in an innovation; once the innovation is generally known, it suggests a pattern for further combinations with the neomorpheme, whose meaning generalizes upon the model's salient contemporary import.

  • A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language; a bound morpheme is one that appears only in combination with another morpheme, such as the suffixes and prefixes of English.

  • These are only representative examples of the bound and gagged morpheme.


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