Your composition is free from all grammatical mistakes.
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Grammatical
/ɡɹəˈmætɪkəl/
Synonyms for "grammatical" (138 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (28)
Noun(11 words)
Adjective(6 words)
Strong matches (41)
Noun(15 words)
grammar lessongrammar observationgrammar understandinggrammariangrammatical classgroup belonginghittiteinflectinginflectional markerjavascript parsing ruleslanguage formslanguage-related descriptorlinguistic attributelinguistic attribute datalinguistic construction
Adjective(18 words)
grammar orientedgrammar-basedgrammaticgrammatical subject agreementhuman languagesicelandicicelandic ísindefinite article usageinflectionallinguisticlinguistic abilitylinguistic categorylinguistic competencelinguistic constructlinguistic contextlinguistic conventionslinguistic descriptionlinguistic descriptor term
Related words (69)
Adjective(19 words)
linguistic featureslinguistic systemslinguistic technologymost verbalnominal attributeportuguese grammarprepositional relationproperspanish languagespanish mitostructural functionswedish grammarsyntacticsyntactic featuresyntactic systemsyntacticalverbal lecturewell-formedwritten language conventions
Noun(28 words)
linguistic modifierlocativelocative prepositionmanchumenomineemodern greek syntaxmore linguistic systemmost syntacticparsingpreppresent perfectprogramming languageprogramming language syntaxprogramming-language syntaxsentence subjectshawneesitsangspanish grammarstructural theorysubject and predicate
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subject pronoun formswedish räknasyntactic categorysyntactic descriptortense moodtonganverb basednessyucatec language
linkingmetalinguisticmorphologicalmorphophonemicnominalparticipialphilologicalphonemicphoneticphonologicalpostpositionalprepositionalpronominalpsycholinguisticsemanticstructuralsubstantivesyntactictagmemictransitive
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Determiner(1 words)
most linguistic concept
Choosing the right synonym
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When not to replace "grammatical"
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Related word relations
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More general
1 entriesMore specific
5 entriesgrammatical correctnessgrammatical gendergrammatical moodgrammatical precisiongrammatical tense
Collocations
6 entriesgrammatical correctnessgrammatical errorgrammatical gendergrammatical rulesgrammatical structuregrammatical tense
Inflections
2 entriesmore grammaticalmost grammatical
Derivations
3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesTranslations
54 translations across 44 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- grammatikaal adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Albanian
1 entries- gramatikor adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- γραμματικός adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Arabic
1 entries- نَحْوِيّ adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Armenian
1 entries- քերականորեն ճիշտ adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Belarusian
1 entries- граматы́чны adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Bulgarian
1 entries- грамати́чески adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Catalan
1 entries- gramatical adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 無語病的 /无语病的 adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
- 通順 /通顺 adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Czech
1 entries- gramatický adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Danish
2 entries- grammatikalsk adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
- grammatisk adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Dutch
1 entries- grammaticaal adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Esperanto
1 entries- laŭgramatika adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Finnish
1 entries- kieliopillinen adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
French
1 entries- grammatical adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Galician
1 entries- gramatical adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Georgian
4 entries- გრამატიკულად მართებული adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
- გრამატიკულად სწორი adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
- გრამატიკული adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
- მართებული adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
German
2 entries- grammatikalisch adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
- grammatisch adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Greek
1 entries- γραμματικός adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Hebrew
1 entries- דִקְדוּקִי adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Hungarian
2 entries- jól formált adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
- nyelvtanilag/nyelvileg helyes adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Icelandic
1 entries- grammatískur adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Italian
1 entries- grammaticale adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Japanese
1 entries- 文法的な adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Korean
1 entries- 문법적 adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Latin
1 entries- grammaticālis adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Lombard
1 entries- gramatical adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Macedonian
1 entries- граматички adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Malay
1 entries- gramatis adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Manx
1 entries- grammeydagh adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Norman
1 entries- granmatical adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Polish
1 entries- gramatyczny adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Portuguese
2 entries- gramatical adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
- gramático adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Romanian
1 entries- gramatical adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Russian
1 entries- граммати́ческий adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- gramàtičkī adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
- грама̀тичкӣ adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Slovak
1 entries- gramatický adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Slovene
1 entries- slóvničen adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Spanish
1 entries- gramatical adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Swedish
1 entries- grammatisk adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Thai
1 entries- ตามไวยากรณ์ adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Ukrainian
1 entries- грамати́чний adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Vehes
1 entries- gramatical adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Yiddish
1 entries- גראַמאַטיש adj (acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The sentence is free from grammatical mistakes.
Source: tatoeba (44124)
Jim pointed out some grammatical mistakes in my composition.
Source: tatoeba (53273)
Strictly speaking, this sentence is not grammatical.
Source: tatoeba (239493)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "grammatical"?
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