ungrammatical

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ grammatical.

Adjective

ungrammatical (comparative more ungrammatical, superlative most ungrammatical)

1. (linguistics) In violation of one or more of the rules and conventions of a language as defined by the grammar, resulting in unacceptable or incorrect usage.

Usage notes

In formal linguistics, ungrammatical sentences are labelled using an asterisk (*):

*The subject of this sentence is.

This convention goes back at least as far as Leonard Bloomfield's Language (1933).

Synonyms

• agrammatical
• ungrammatic

Antonyms

• grammatical

Derived terms

• ungrammaticality
• ungrammatically

 

Related terms

• ungrammaticalized

Translations

in violation of one or more of the rules and conventions of a language

• Arabic: مَلْحُون (malḥūn)
• Armenian: քերականորեն ոչ ճիշտ (kʻerakanoren očʻ čišt)
• Burmese: သဒ္ဒါအတိုင်းမဟုတ်သော ၊ (saddaa.tuing:ma.hutsau: |)
• Catalan: agramatical
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不合文法的 (bùhé wénfǎ de), 非文法的 (fēi wénfǎ de)

• Esperanto: kontraŭgramatika
• Estonian: ebagrammatiline
• Finnish: kieliopillisesti virheellinen
• French: agrammatical (fr)
• German: ungrammatisch (de)
• Greek: αντιγραμματικός (el) (antigrammatikós)
• Hebrew: לא דקדוקי m (lo dikdukí)
• Ido: kontre-gramatika
• Italian: sgrammaticato (it)
• Japanese: 破格 (ja) (はかく, hakaku), 非文法的 (ひぶんぽうてき, hibunpōteki)
• Korean: 비문법적 (bimunbeopjeok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nerêzimanî

• Malayalam: വ്യാകരണപ്പിഴയുള്ള (vyākaraṇappiḻayuḷḷa), വ്യാകരണവിരുദ്ധമായി (vyākaraṇaviruddhamāyi), വ്യാകരണപ്പിഴയുള്ളതായി (vyākaraṇappiḻayuḷḷatāyi)
• Manx: neughrammeydoil
• Polish: niegramatyczny m, agramatyzcny
• Portuguese: agramatical (pt), antigramatical, ingramatical
• Romanian: negramatical
• Russian: неграммати́ческий (ru) (negrammatíčeskij), негра́мотный (ru) (negrámotnyj)
• Spanish: agramatical (es)
• Swedish: ogrammatisk
• Telugu: అశాస్త్రీయమైన (te) (aśāstrīyamaina), గ్రామ్యమైన (grāmyamaina)
• Turkish: dilbilgisi dışı