Back Modalpartikel German Particule modale French מילית מודלית HE Modális partikula Hungarian Демеулік шылаулар Kazakh Paroleta modal LFN Modaal partikel Dutch Particulă modală Romanian 語氣助詞 Chinese
In linguistics, modal particles are a type of grammatical particle used in a sentence to add extra meaning, particularly in spoken language.[1] Modal particles have various functions, including adding emotion or emphasis,[2] or to express how sentence content is grounded in common knowledge between the speaker and participants.[3]
Languages that use many modal particles in their spoken form include Dutch, Danish, German, Hungarian, Russian, Telugu, Nepali, Norwegian, Indonesian, Sinitic languages, and Japanese.[4] Modal particles are often context-dependent and difficult to translate.
- ^ "The various meanings of modal particles". learngerman.dw.com. Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
- ^ "Modal particles: even, eens, nou, maar, misschien, ..." Zichtbaar Nederlands. November 29, 2018.
- ^ Fabian Bross (2012): German modal particles and the common ground In: Helikon. A Multidisciplinary Online Journal, 2. 182-209.
- ^ Dutch Grammar:politeness - Beleefdheid Modal particle - Modale partikels retrieved 2009-01-01 and Modal Particles By Keith Robinson, Wang Lingli retrieved 2015-08-04