noun
sentence structure; grammatical construction
General term for the arrangement of words and phrases in a sentence; used in linguistics and language learning.
日本語の構文は英語と大きく異なる。
Japanese sentence structure is very different from English.
この構文は日常会話でよく使われる。
This grammatical construction is often used in everyday conversation.
noun
Computing sense: the set of rules that define the combinations of symbols considered to be correctly structured programs or data.
このプログラムは構文エラーを含んでいる。
This program contains a syntax error.