Advertisement
Vocabulary Entry
inflected
|verb • adjective
Advertisement
V
verb
To change the form of a word to express different grammatical features such as tense, mood, or person.
Example Sentences
"She inflected the verb 'to run' to indicate past tense."
"In English, you can inflect regular verbs by adding '-ed'."
"Different languages have rules for how nouns are inflected."
A
adjective
Describing a form of a word that has undergone inflection, indicating a grammatical change.
Example Sentences
"The inflected forms of the word 'go' are 'goes', 'went', and 'going'."
"In this sentence, the inflected adjective changes according to gender."
"Inflected nouns in Latin show endings that match their grammatical case."