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modal particle

noun

Etymology

From modal + particle, attested from the first half of the 19th century. Calque of German Modalpartikel.

  1. derived from Modalpartikel

Definitions

  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.
    • The modal particle da in Norwegian conditional clauses is a lexical item that is specialized for use in conditionals but it occurs in positive as well as in negative conditional clauses.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for modal particle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA