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English usage and grammar

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In my native language there's a word for that kind of words, but I'm not sure how they are called in english.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I believe they're called filler words

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Or simply "fillers", see last definition here.

The general grammatical category is interjection.

[–] MrRobot 2 points 1 year ago