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grammatical case vs grammatical category

grammatical category vs grammatical case

grammatical case and grammatical category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
grammatical case Yes No No No
grammatical category Yes No No No
As nouns, grammatical category is a hypernym of grammatical case; that is, grammatical category is a word with a broader meaning than grammatical case:
  • grammatical case: nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
  • grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of grammatical case include syntactic category.
grammatical case (noun) grammatical category (noun)
nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Difference between grammatical case and grammatical category

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