In grammar, a copula is often represented by the verb "to be".
Source: tatoeba (12680415)
Copula
//ˈkɒpjʊlə//
Synonyms for "copula" (31 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (15)
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1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
8 entriesderived
8 entrieshas context
5 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
Translations
91 translations across 53 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kopulë noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Arabic
3 entries- رَابِط noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- رَابِطَة noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- عِمَاد noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Armenian
1 entries- հանգույց noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Belarusian
3 entries- дзеясло́ў-звя́зка noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- звя́зка noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- ко́пула noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Bulgarian
2 entries- връ́зка noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- ко́пула noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Chechen
1 entries- хоттам noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 係詞 /系词 noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- 耦合 noun (statistics: measure of association)
- 連繫動詞 /连系动词 noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- 連詞 /连词 noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Czech
1 entries- spona noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Danish
1 entries- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Dutch
1 entries- koppelwerkwoord noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Esperanto
1 entries- ligverbo noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Estonian
1 entries- koopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Farefare
2 entries- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- tɔɣ-kɔpʋla noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Finnish
1 entries- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
French
1 entries- copule noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Georgian
1 entries- კოპულა noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
German
2 entries- Kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- Kopulaverb noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Greek
1 entries- συνδετικό ρήμα noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Hebrew
1 entries- אוֹגֵד noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Hindi
2 entries- योजक noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- संयोजक noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Hungarian
3 entries- kapcsolóige noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- kopulatív ige noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Icelandic
1 entries- tengisögn noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Indonesian
1 entries- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- فِعْلِ رَبْطی noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Italian
1 entries- copula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Japanese
4 entries- コピュラ noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- コピュラ noun (statistics: measure of association)
- コプラ noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- 指定詞 noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Kazakh
1 entries- жалғаулық noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Korean
3 entries- 계사 noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- 계합사 noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- 코퓰러 noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- байламта noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Latvian
1 entries- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Macedonian
1 entries- копула noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Mongolian
2 entries- холбоц noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- холбоц үйл үг noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Polish
3 entries- kopula noun (statistics: measure of association)
- spójka noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- łącznik noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Portuguese
2 entries- cópula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- verbo de ligação noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Romanian
1 entries- copulă noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Russian
4 entries- глаго́л-свя́зка noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- ко́пула noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- ко́пула noun (statistics: measure of association)
- свя́зка noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kȍpula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- spȍna noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- ко̏пула noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- спо̏на noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Slovak
1 entries- spona noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Slovene
2 entries- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- vez noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Spanish
2 entries- cópula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- cópula noun (statistics: measure of association)
Swedish
1 entries- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Tagalog
1 entries- pandiwang pangawing noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Tajik
1 entries- бандак noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Tatar
1 entries- бәйлек noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Thai
2 entries- ตัวเชื่อม noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- สัมพันธกริยา noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Turkish
1 entries- koşaç noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Ukrainian
3 entries- дієсло́во-зв'я́зка noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- зв'я́зка noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- ко́пула noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Uzbek
2 entries- bogʻlama noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- feʼl-bogʻlama noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Vietnamese
1 entries- từ liên hệ noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Welsh
1 entries- cyplad noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Zazaki
2 entries- gırek noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
- kopula noun (grammar: linking kind of word)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Pro-drop and zero copula are avoided in Interslavic.
Source: tatoeba (12987007)
I begin by arguing in section 2 that there are in fact at least two Celtic copulas, a grammatical copula that simply spells out tense and agreement, and a substantive copula formed on a lexically listed verbal stem.
Source: wiktionary
The theory of conjunctively tensed copulae will be developed and stated with more precision in the following section.
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