syntax

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Etymology

Ancient Greek σύνταξις (suntaksis), from σύν (sun, “together”) + τάξις (taksis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tassō, “I arrange”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪn.tæks/, X-SAMPA: /"sIn.t{ks/

Noun

syntax (plural syntaxes)

1. A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
2. (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
3. (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.

Usage notes

The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.)

Derived terms

• syntactic
• syntactician

Related terms

• syntax error
• syntax highlighting

Translations

set of rules that govern how words are combined

• Arabic: بناء جملة (ar) (bināʾ júmla) m
• Armenian: շարահյուսություն (šarahyusut'yun)
• Catalan: sintaxi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 句法 (cmn) (jùfǎ), 造句 (cmn) (zàojù)

• Esperanto: sintakso (eo)
• Finnish: lauseoppi (fi), syntaksi (fi)
• French: syntaxe (fr) f
• German: Syntax (de) f
• Greek: συντακτικό (el) (syntaktikó) n, σύνταξη (el) (sýntaxi) f
• Japanese: 統語法 (ja) (とうごほう, tōgohō), 構文 (ja) (こうぶん, kōbun)

• Occitan: sintaxi (oc) f
• Persian: نحو (fa)
• Polish: składnia (pl) f, syntaksa (pl) f
• Portuguese: sintaxe (pt) f
• Russian: синтаксис (ru) (síntaksis) m
• Scots: seentax
• Serbo-Croatian: sklàdnja (sh) f, sìntaksa (sh) f
• Slovene: skladnja (sl)
• Spanish: sintaxis (es) f
• Swedish: syntax (sv) c, grammatik (sv) c
• Vietnamese: cú pháp (vi)

formal rules of a computer language

• Finnish: syntaksi (fi)
• French: syntaxe (fr) f
• Greek: συντακτικό (el) (syntaktikó) n
• Icelandic: málskipan (is) f
• Japanese: 文法 (ja) (ぶんぽう, bunpō), 構文 (ja) (こうぶん, kōbun), シンタックス (ja) (shintakkusu)
• Persian: نحو (fa)

• Polish: składnia (pl) f, syntaksa (pl) f
• Portuguese: sintaxe f
• Russian: синтаксис (ru) (síntaksis) m
• Serbo-Croatian: sklàdnja (sh) f, sìntaksa (sh) f
• Spanish: sintaxis (es) f
• Swedish: syntax (sv) c, grammatik (sv) c

study of the structure of phrases and sentences

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 句法 (cmn) (jùfǎ), 语法学 (cmn) (yǔfǎxué)

• Czech: syntax (cs) f, syntaxe (cs) f
• Faroese: orðalagslæra (fo) f
• Finnish: lauseoppi (fi), syntaksi (fi)
• French: syntaxe (fr) f
• German: Syntax (de) f, Grammatiktheorie (de) f
• Greek: συντακτικό (el) (syntaktikó) n
• Icelandic: setningafræði (is) f, (dated) orðskipunarfræði (is) f
• Japanese: 統語論 (ja) (とうごろん, tōgoron)

• Persian: نحو (fa)
• Polish: składnia (pl) f, syntaksa (pl) f
• Portuguese: sintaxe f
• Russian: синтаксис (ru) (síntaksis) m
• Serbo-Croatian: sklàdnja (sh) f, sìntaksa (sh) f
• Slovak: syntax (sk) f
• Slovene: skladnja (sl)
• Spanish: sintaxis (es) f
• Swedish: syntax (sv) c, grammatik (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: 造句 SYN：morphology
• Dutch: syntaxis f
• Esperanto: sintakso
• German: Syntax f
• Interlingua: syntaxe
• Italian: sintassi f
• Latin: syntaxis f
• Persian: جمله‌شناسی (jomle-shenasi), نحو (nahv)

See also

• grammar

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Czech

Noun

syntax f

1. syntax (linguistics)

Synonyms

• syntaxe f

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsin.taks/, X-SAMPA: /"sin.taks/

Noun

syntax f (genitive singular syntaxe), declension pattern dlaň

1. syntax (linguistics)

Declension

    declension of syntax

	singulare tantum
nominative	syntax
genitive	syntaxe
dative	syntaxi
accusative	syntax
locative	syntaxi
instrumental	syntaxou

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Swedish

Noun

syntax c

1. a syntax, a (formal) grammar

Declension

Declension of syntax

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	syntax	syntaxen	syntaxer	syntaxerna
genitive	syntax	syntaxens	syntaxers	syntaxernas

References

• syntax in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)