agglutinative
adjective
languagespecializeduk/əˈɡluː.tɪ.nə.tɪv/us/əˈɡluː.t̬ə.nə.t̬ɪv/(of alanguage) using words thatcontainmanyelementsthat eachexpressameaningratherthanseparatewords for eachmeaning:
Finnishis an agglutinativelanguagein whichgrammaticalrelationshipsareexpressedmainlybysuffixes.
Hungarianuses agglutinativesuffixesto show thepersonandnumberof thesubject.
Thislanguageis agglutinative, andcombinesmorphemestobuildwords.
Compare
analytic
synthetic
- ThecomplexagglutinativemorphologyofHungarianmust belearned.
- Turkishis an agglutinativelanguagewith veryproductivesuffixesandinflections.
- It is an agglutinativelanguagein which thetenseandpersonareshownbyaddingto theverbalstem.
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- -ville
- agglutinate
- analytic
- bimorphemic
- combining form
- contraction
- derivative
- ism
- libfix
- monomorphemic
- morphological
- morphology
- multisyllabic
- suffix
- there's
- trigraph
- trisyllabic
- trisyllable