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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

घटक

Native Script:हिंदी देवनागरी

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ghatak

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Constituent/kənˈstɪtʃuənt/
nounadjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"वाक्य में हर घटक का अपना व्याकरणिक कार्य होता है।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A word or a group of words that functions as a single unit within a hierarchical syntactic structure.

    "In the sentence 'The cat sat on the mat', 'the cat' and 'on the mat' function as major syntactic constituents."
  2. 2

    A component part or member that helps to form a whole system, organization, or substance.

    "Hydrogen and oxygen are the main constituents of water."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb constituere, meaning 'to set up, establish, or compose', formed from con- (together) + statuere (to cause to stand). Entering Middle English in the 15th century, it evolved from denoting a maker or appointer to describing a component part that constitutes a whole, later becoming a fundamental term in modern syntactic theory.

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