sentence-final particle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a word class that occurs at the end of a sentence or utterance that does not carry relational meaning, but may indicate linguistic modality, register or pragmatics

Word forms

sentence-final particle sentence-final particles

Etymology

From sentence + final + particle.

Related words

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