| ADJECTIVE | all | subordinating, subordinative | serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause |
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| Sounds | sahbao'rdahney.tihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | Serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause. | |
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| Example | "'when' in 'I will come when I can' is a subordinating conjunction" | |
| Synonym | subordinative | |
| Category | grammar | The branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) |
| Opposite | coordinating, coordinative | Serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction |
| Spanish | subordinado, subordinante | |
| Catalan | subordinant | |
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