modal particle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

modal particles plural

词源

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