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modal particles

modal particles is the plural of modal particle.

Meaning of modal particle

Noun

modal particle (plural modal particles)

  1. A word class that indicates the mood of an utterance.
    • As far as we have been able to discover, no particles indicating the tense are ever used in conjunction with this or any of the other modal particles (except -il) , so that the time of the action must be gathered from the context.1843, Heinrich August Eduard Meyer, Vocabulary of the Language Spoken by the Aborigines of the Southern and Eastern Portions of the Settled Districts of South Australia

Questions about modal particles

What is modal particles the plural of?
Modal particles is the plural of modal particle.

Words near modal particles in the dictionary

  1. modal filters
  2. modal jazz
  3. modal logic
  4. modal logics
  5. modal particle
  6. modal particles
  7. modal scale
  8. modal scales
  9. modal shift
  10. modal shifts
  11. modal stacking

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