noun🔗ShareKlitikumA morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word)."The contraction "'s" in "John's here" is a clitic because it acts like the word "is" but can't stand alone; it must attach to the noun "John". "Die Kontraktion „'s“ in „John's here“ ist ein Klitikum, weil sie wie das Wort „is“ funktioniert, aber nicht allein stehen kann; sie muss an das Nomen „John“ angefügt werden.grammarlanguagelinguisticswordphoneticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading