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free morpheme

free morpheme noun: a morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning.

Noun

free morpheme (plural free morphemes)

  1. A morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning.
    • Book is a free morpheme, but the -s on books is not, because -s carries no meaning until joined to a free morpheme.

free morpheme meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

free morpheme in Tamil

தனியுருபன், தனி உருபன்

free morpheme in Vietnamese

type of morpheme
hình vị tự do

Antonyms of free morpheme

Forms of free morpheme

pluralfree morphemes

Questions about free morpheme

What does free morpheme mean?
Free morpheme means a morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning.
What is free morpheme in Tamil?
Free morpheme in Tamil is தனியுருபன், தனி உருபன். See Free morpheme meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is free morpheme?
Free morpheme is a noun.
What is the plural of free morpheme?
The plural of free morpheme is free morphemes.

Words near free morpheme in the dictionary

  1. free mixing
  2. free module
  3. free modules
  4. free monoid
  5. free monoids
  6. free morpheme
  7. free morphemes
  8. free neutron
  9. free neutrons
  10. free of charge
  11. free of the city

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Adapted from Wiktionary: free morpheme (page history and authors); free morpheme (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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