Meaning | A change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function. |
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Synonym | inflection |
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Narrower | conjugation | The inflection of verbs |
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declension | The inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages |
paradigm | Systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word |
pluralization, pluralisation | The act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to |
Broader | grammatical relation | A linguistic relation established by grammar |
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Spanish | accidente, flexión, inflexión |
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Catalan | accident, flexió, inflexió |
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Verbs | inflect | change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language |
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