I'd like to ask a grammarian, isn't it possible to think of 'be + participle' like you do V C and such?
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Grammarian
//ɡɹəˈmɛəɹɪən//
Synonyms for "grammarian" (28 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 39 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- γραμματικός noun (person who studies grammar)
Arabic
1 entries- نَحْوِيّ noun (person who studies grammar)
Armenian
2 entries- քերական noun (person who studies grammar)
- քերականագետ noun (person who studies grammar)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 語法學家 /语法学家 noun (person who studies grammar)
Czech
1 entries- gramatik noun (person who studies grammar)
Danish
1 entries- grammatiker noun (person who studies grammar)
Dutch
1 entries- grammaticus noun (person who studies grammar)
Esperanto
1 entries- gramatikisto noun (person who studies grammar)
Finnish
1 entries- kieliopin tutkija noun (person who studies grammar)
French
2 entries- grammairien noun (person who studies grammar)
- grammairienne noun (person who studies grammar)
Galician
2 entries- gramática noun (person who studies grammar)
- gramático noun (person who studies grammar)
German
1 entries- Grammatiker noun (person who studies grammar)
Greek
1 entries- γραμματικός noun (person who studies grammar)
Hindi
2 entries- वैयाकरणिक noun (person who studies grammar)
- शाब्दिक noun (person who studies grammar)
Italian
1 entries- grammatico noun (person who studies grammar)
Japanese
2 entries- 文法学者 noun (person who studies grammar)
- 文法家 noun (person who studies grammar)
Korean
1 entries- 문법가 noun (person who studies grammar)
Latin
1 entries- grammaticus noun (person who studies grammar)
Latvian
2 entries- gramatiķe noun (person who studies grammar)
- gramatiķis noun (person who studies grammar)
Lithuanian
2 entries- gramatikas noun (person who studies grammar)
- gramatikė noun (person who studies grammar)
Low German
1 entries- grammatikers noun (person who studies grammar)
Macedonian
1 entries- граматичар noun (person who studies grammar)
Manx
1 entries- grammeydeyr noun (person who studies grammar)
Middle English
1 entries- gramarien noun (person who studies grammar)
Middle High German
2 entries- gramatici noun (person who studies grammar)
- grâmaticus noun (person who studies grammar)
Māori
1 entries- mātanga wetewete reo noun (person who studies grammar)
Old English
1 entries- stæfcræftiga noun (person who studies grammar)
Persian
1 entries- نحوی noun (person who studies grammar)
Polish
1 entries- gramatyk noun (person who studies grammar)
Portuguese
1 entries- gramático noun (person who studies grammar)
Russian
3 entries- грамма́тик noun (person who studies grammar)
- граммати́ст noun (person who studies grammar)
- граммати́стка noun (person who studies grammar)
Sanskrit
3 entries- वैयाकरण noun (person who studies grammar)
- शाब्द noun (person who studies grammar)
- शाब्दिक noun (person who studies grammar)
Slovak
1 entries- gramatik noun (person who studies grammar)
Spanish
1 entries- gramático noun (person who studies grammar)
Swahili
1 entries- mwanasarufi noun (person who studies grammar)
Swedish
1 entries- grammatiker noun (person who studies grammar)
Tagalog
1 entries- mambabalarila noun (person who studies grammar)
Urdu
1 entries- قواعدداں noun (person who studies grammar)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nhà ngữ pháp học noun (person who studies grammar)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
He learnt for the first time that there was no law of transmutation, as in his innocence he had supposed (there was, in some degree, but the grammarian did not recognize it), but that every word in both Latin and Greek was to be individually committed to memory at the cost of years of plodding.
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Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
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Huddleston and Pullum are well-known grammarians of the 21st century.
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