noun🔗Share罵り言葉, 悪態A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath."When the student accidentally dropped her textbook, a loud expletive escaped her lips. "生徒が誤って教科書を落としたとき、大きな罵り言葉が彼女の唇から漏れた。curselanguagewordcommunicationlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareフィラーA word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position."The sentence is: "In the sentence 'There is a cat on the mat,' the word 'there' is an expletive because it doesn't refer to a place but just fills the subject position." "文章は次のとおりです:「There is a cat on the mat」という文で、「there」という単語は場所を指すのではなく、単に主語の位置を埋めるため、フィラーです。grammarlanguagewordlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share罵り言葉, 卑語A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning."The sentence structure is simple and easily understood by English learners. "The sentence 'There is a cat on the mat' can be shortened to 'A cat is on the mat' because 'there' is an expletive in the first version; it doesn't add any real meaning." "文構造は単純で、英語学習者にも理解しやすいです。languagegrammarwordlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Share飾り, 冗長なServing to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant."The sentence began with an expletive "there," adding nothing to the meaning. "その文は意味に何も加えない、冗長な「there」から始まった。grammarlanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Share余計な言葉の多いMarked by expletives (phrase-fillers)."The teacher's lecture was expletive, filled with phrases like "honestly" and "basically" that didn't add much to the content. "先生の講義は「正直言って」や「基本的に」といった、内容にあまり貢献しない余計な言葉が多く含まれていた。languagewordcommunicationcurseChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading