also: ぶんぽうカテゴリ
grammatical category
Linguistics term for a class of linguistic units or features that share a common grammatical property, such as tense, number, or case.
"Tense" is one grammatical category.
In this language, the grammatical category of gender plays an important role.
Shorter variant with カテゴリ; common in technical writing and computing contexts.
Compound of 文法 (grammar) and the English loanword カテゴリー (category).