also: ぶんぽうカテゴリ
noun
grammatical category
Linguistics term for a class of linguistic units or features that share a common grammatical property, such as tense, number, or case.
「時制」は文法カテゴリーの一つです。
"Tense" is one grammatical category.
この言語では、性という文法カテゴリーが重要な役割を果たす。
In this language, the grammatical category of gender plays an important role.
Synonymous term also used in linguistics; 文法範疇 is a more traditional Japanese coinage, while 文法カテゴリー is a direct loanword from English.
Compound of 文法 (grammar) and the English loanword カテゴリー (category).