Comma
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Pronunciation
- /kŏ'mə/, /ˈkɒma/, /"kQma/
Noun
comma (commas)
- Punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list.
- A North American butterfly of the genus Polygonia.
Translations
- Basque: ziri, txotx]
- Dutch: komma f
- Esperanto: komo
- Finnish: pilkku
- French: virgule f
- German: Komma n, Bleistrich m
- Interlingua: virgula, comma
- Polish: przecinek m
- Portuguese: vírgula f
- Romanian: virgulă f
- Russian: запятая f
- Slovak: čiarka f (1)
- Slovene: vejica f (1)
- Spanish: vírgula f, coma f (maybe only in Latin America)
Punctuation
| Symbol | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| ' | apostrophe | |
| [ and ] | bracket (US), square bracket (British) | |
| : | colon | |
| , | comma | |
| — | dash, em rule | |
| – | en rule | |
| ! | exclamation mark | |
| - | hyphen | |
| ( and ) | parenthesis, bracket (British) | |
| . | period (US), full stop (British) | |
| ? | question mark | |
| " or ' | quotation mark, quote, inverted commas (British) | |
| ; | semicolon |
