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📝 To give feedback 🌱 To shape development 🔤 To add endings
formatively

formatively

9.3
In a way that uses small word parts added to change meaning or grammar
  • adverb
  • /ˈfɔːrmətɪvli/
  • Specialized
translation icon : morfologicamente
  • Some languages mark grammatical tense formatively by attaching specific endings to verbs.

Examples

  • The plural in this language is created formatively rather than by using separate words.

  • Researchers studied how children acquire new words formatively through exposure to different morphemes.

  • The teacher explained how words are formatively constructed.

  • Students should learn to analyze language formatively.

  • Some languages mark grammatical tense formatively by attaching specific endings to verbs.

  • The plural in this language is created formatively rather than by using separate words.

  • Researchers studied how children acquire new words formatively through exposure to different morphemes.

Synonyms

morphologically
vsformatively
  • Specialized
1 6.9

In a way that relates to the form or structure of living things and words

focuses specifically on using bound morphemes in making words

Surface Forms

formatively positive

Morphology

formatively = formative (semi-transparent) = form + ative + ly

Morphologically regular (formative + -ly), but the sense referring to 'formatives' (technical linguistic term) is specialist and not obvious to average learners.

Etymology

Formatively comes from the root form which means 'to shape', and in language study a formative is a small piece added to a word, so formatively means in a way that 'shapes' the form of words, for example by adding endings.