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Definition of 'subordinate clause'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) subordinate clause
a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.

Definition of 'subordinate clause'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) subordinate clause, dependent clause
a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a clause introduced in a sentence by a conjunction etc, and acting as a noun, adjective or adverb I don't know; The book; She's crying
Afrikaans: bysin	Arabic: جُمْلَه تابِعَه، مُعْتَمِ	Bulgarian: подчинено изречение
Brazilian: oração subordinada	Czech: podřadné souvětí	German: der Nebensatz
Danish: bisætning	Greek: δευτερεύουσα πρόταση (γρα	Spanish: oración subordinada
Estonian: kõrvallause	Farsi: جمله پيرو	Finnish: sivulause
French: proposition subordonnée	Hebrew: מִשפָּט טָפֵל	Hindi: आश्रित उपवाक्य
Croatian: zavisna rečenica	Hungarian: alárendelt mellékmondat	Indonesian: anak kalimat
Icelandic: aukasetning	Italian: proposizione subordinata	Japanese: 従属節
Korean: 종속절	Lithuanian: šalutinis sakinys	Latvian: palīgteikums
Malay: klausa subordinat	Dutch: bijzin	Norwegian: leddsetning (bi-)
Polish: zdanie podrzędne	Persian: جمله پيرو	Pashto: پیروه جمله
Portuguese: oração subordinada	Romanian: propoziţie subordonată	Russian: придаточное предложение
Slovak: vedľajšia veta	Slovenian: podredni stavek	Serbian: zavisna rečenica
Swedish: bisats	Thai: อนุประโยคซึ่งไม่สามารถอยู	Turkish: yan cümlecik
Taiwanese: 附屬子句，從句	Ukrainian: підрядне речення	Urdu: تابع جملہ
Vietnamese: mệnh đề phụ thuộc	Chinese: （语法）从句
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