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Parsing Abbreviations

Part of Speech  –  Person, Tense, Mood, Voice  –  Case, Number, Gender, Comparison

Part of Speech

V - Verb
N - Noun
D - Adverb
A - Adjective
RA - Article
RD - Demonstrative Pronoun
RI - Interrog. / Indefinite Pron.
RP - Personal / Possess. Pron.
RR - Relative Pronoun
P - Preposition
C - Conjunction
I - Cnterjection
X - Particle













Person

1 - 1st Person
2 - 2nd Person
3 - 3rd Person

Tense

P - Present
I - Imperfect
F - Future
A - Aorist
X - Perfect
Y - Pluperfect

Mood

I - Indicative
M - Imperative
S - Subjunctive
O - Optative
N - Infinitive
P - Participle

Voice

A - Active
M - Middle
P - Passive



 

Case

N - Nominative
V - Vocative
A - Accusative
G - Genitive
D - Dative

Number

S - Singular
P - Plural

Gender

M - Masculine
F - Feminine
N - Neuter

Comparison

C - Comparative
S - Superlative

 


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