Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A word or morpheme containing no lexical meaning and instead functions as a grammatical link or marker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
singular of empty words
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, singular
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History
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