By part of speech
A word is every part of speech it has a meaning of, so başha is listed under adjectives, nouns and postpositions alike and the counts add up to more than the 18,324 entries in the dictionary. Each list shows only the meanings of the class it belongs to.
Verbs, nouns and adjectives
| Verbs | an action or a state; the entry gives the whole conjugation. | 3,335 |
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| Nouns | a thing, person or idea; the entry gives the cases and the possessives. | 11,297 |
| Adjectives | a quality; the entry gives the degrees and the to-be forms. | 2,927 |
Other words
Small classes, listed whole — each of these is a page a learner can read end to end rather than search through.
| Adverbs | how, when or where something happens. | 1,056 |
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| Participles | a verb form used as an adjective, listed as its own entry where it has hardened into a word. | 342 |
| Interjections | a call or an exclamation, standing outside the sentence. | 244 |
| Pronouns | a word standing in for a noun. | 169 |
| Numerals | a number word, and the forms built on it. | 114 |
| Particles | a small word carrying emphasis, doubt or question rather than a meaning of its own. | 97 |
| Postpositions | a word placed after a noun, where English puts a preposition in front. | 88 |
| Conjunctions | a word joining two words or two clauses. | 32 |
| Determiners | a word placed before a noun to point it out: this, that, every. | 18 |