Most foreigners will never fully master the use of German modal particles.
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Modal
/ˈməʊdəl/
Synonyms for "modal" (21 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (10)
Adjective(10 words)
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More general
4 entriesauxiliary verblinguistic featuremusical conceptstatistical term
More specific
6 entriesCollocations
6 entriesmodal auxiliarymodal frameworkmodal possibilitymodal verbmultimodal distributionunimodal distribution
Inflections
2 entriesmore modalmost modal
Derivations
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
7 translations across 6 languages.
Dutch
2 entries- modaal adj (music: of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided)
- modus- adj (music: of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided)
Finnish
1 entries- modaalinen adj (music: of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided)
Galician
1 entries- modal adj (music: of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided)
Hungarian
1 entries- modális adj (music: of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided)
Polish
1 entries- modalny adj (music: of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided)
Russian
1 entries- ла́довый adj (music: of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Dialogs can be modal, in which case the user is required to provide necessary information before work in the main window can continue, or modeless. Modeless dialogs do not prevent the user from interacting with any of the other windows in the application.
Source: wiktionary
a modal dialog; a modal window
Source: wiktionary
Using the same type of distributional criterion, we could argue that only a Verb (in its base form) can occur in the position marked — in (23) below to complete the sentence: (23) They/it can — [...] Conversely, the only type of word which could be used to begin a three-word sentence such as (25) below: (25) — I be frank? is a Modal: cf. [...]
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