Grammar Information (SAP Library - Terminology and Glossary in SAPterm (BC-DOC-TER))

Grammar Information

You must maintain the following attributes for each new term:

Grammatical type
Part of speech
Gender (depending on the language of the term)

Grammatical type

The grammatical attribute is required for the analysis of terms for machine translation.

The grammatical type classifies the structure of the character string entered into one of the following categories:

Word
Multiword
Clause

Word

The category Word includes:

Character strings which do not contain spaces

Example Example

movement, deactivate, gradually, quickly

Character strings connected by one or more hyphens

Example Example

once-only, use-before, client-specific

Character strings (composite) which comprise two or more elements and are not separated by spaces

Example Example

mySAP.com, InfoCube, ValueSAP

Multiword

The category Multiword includes phrases of two or more words. These phrases are an entity and comprise the most important parts of speech in a sentence (noun, verb, adjective or adverb).

Example Example

Multiword term as noun	associated company hundred-percent subsidiary internal job advertisement overview of something
Multiword term as verb	take responsibility for something post an account change fundamentally
Multiword term as adjective	greatly reduced effectively ready
Multiword term as adverb	very slowly as usual

As terms must be entered in STERM with a part of speech, it is very important to distinguish between the various types of multiword terms: noun, verb, adjective or adverb. The root word of a multiword term is the main indicator of the part of speech. The root word of the phrase is the element that can be declined or conjugated.

The root word is bold in the following examples.

Example Example

Nominal multiword terms	internal job advertisement internal job advertisements
Verbal multiword terms	is dependent on something was dependent on something

Note

See Part of Speech for guidelines for distinguishing between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

Clause

The category Clause includes word sequences which contain at least two root elements of a sentence: a subject (= noun or nominal phrase) and a predicate (= verb or verbal phrase):

Example Example

trailer swings out, receipt is being printed

If the conjugated verb in the phrase is the auxiliary verb to be, it can be omitted:

Example Example

machine not ready for use, elevator under repair

If you classify a term as a Clause, you should assign it to the part of speech Noun.

Part of Speech

Terms can have the following parts of speech:

Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb

If you cannot identify the word type of a term, use the following guidelines:

Noun	Nouns are words or expressions that refer to persons, places, things, circumstances or attributes. Nouns also have the following characteristics: They can be associated with an article. They can be declined.
Verb	Verbs identify actions. Verbs can be conjugated.
Adjective	Adjectives define properties of nouns. Adjectives can be declined like nouns.
Adverb	Adverbs describe situations. They are neither declined nor conjugated. Adverbs answer the questions How, When, or Where? Enter prepositional phrases in the terminology database as adverbs. For example: in time at the end of the transaction

Gender

You may also need to maintain the gender of a noun, depending on the language for which you are maintaining the term.

Note

English nouns require no attribute for gender, so the function for setting this attribute does not appear. German nouns require attributes for gender, so attributes for gender appear when you select Noun as the part of speech for a term.