basic form

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English

Noun

basic form (plural basic forms)

1. The uninflected form of a word used as a dictionary entry.

Synonyms

• canonical form
• dictionary form
• citation form
• headword
• lemma

Translations

the basic form of a word used as a dictionary entry

• Finnish: perusmuoto (fi)
• Hungarian: szótári alak
• Japanese: 基本形 (きほんけい, kihonkei)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grunnform m or f

  Nynorsk: grunnform f

• Swedish: uppslagsord (sv) n, grundform (sv) c