Ungrammatical
Definition
A person who is ignorant of the basic rules of grammar, making severe mistakes in spelling, speech, punctuation, or writing; uneducated, illiterate, or uncultured. As an adjective, describing a text, speech, or style marked by flagrant morphosyntactic errors.
Bilingual Equivalents
- Ungrammatical
- Illiterate person
Grammatical & Source Details
| Inflection Type | Masculine noun or variable adjective, taking regular plural and gender inflectional markers. |
| Formation | Formed using the Greek privative prefix 'a-' (without) and 'gramma' (letter/learning), denoting historically someone unable to read. |
| Spelling / Pronunciation | [a.generic.ˈmat] |
| Source | Lexicon of Romanian Grammatical Patterns, Verbs, and Derived Adjectives |
Contextual Usage Examples
RO: Profesorul a criticat acel discurs agramat, considerând o rușine ca un oficial public să comită asemenea greșeli de exprimare.
EN: The professor criticized that ungrammatical speech, considering it a shame for a public official to commit such speech errors.
RO: Dacă trimiți un e-mail agramat către potențialii angajatori, ai toate șansele ca CV-ul tău să fie respins din start.
EN: If you send an ungrammatical email to potential employers, you have every chance of your CV being rejected from the start.
RO: Criticul a demonstrat că autorul este un agramat, arătând zecile de dezacorduri dintre subiect și predicat din primul capitol.
EN: The critic demonstrated that the author is an illiterate person, pointing out the dozens of disagreements between subject and predicate in the first chapter.
Idioms & Phrases
Discurs agramat / Ungrammatical speech / poorly phrased address
RO: Alocuțiune publică sau privată plină de greșeli de exprimare, cacofonii și dezacorduri, afectând grav credibilitatea vorbitorului.
EN: A public or private address filled with phrasing mistakes, cacophonies, and disagreements, severely affecting the speaker's credibility.
Scris agramat / Flawed writing / ungrammatical text
RO: Mod de redactare ce încalcă în mod repetat normele de ortografie și punctuație stabilite oficial de Academia Română.
EN: A style of drafting that repeatedly violates the spelling and punctuation rules officially established by the language academy.
Om agramat / Illiterate individual / uneducated person
RO: Persoană care, deși a trecut printr-un sistem școlar, a eșuat în asimilarea structurilor logice și corecte ale limbii materne.
EN: A person who is technically literate but repeatedly fails to apply or integrate standard grammatical structures.
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