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.
Standard form using the longer katakana spelling カテゴリー.
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).