inflection
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Inflection is the way words change their form to show different grammatical meanings, such as whether something is singular, dual (two), or plural. In the example of Scottish Gaelic, the word for "dog" takes on different shapes depending on whether you're talking about one dog, two dogs, or many dogs.
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- Examples in English
- Regular and irregular inflection <span id="Regular"></span>
- Declension and conjugation
- Inflectional paradigm
- Compared to derivation
- Inflectional morphology
- Inflection through reduplication
- Inflection through tone change
- In various languages
- Indo-European languages (fusional)
- English
- Scandinavian languages
- Other Germanic languages
- Latin and the Romance languages
- Baltic languages
- Slavic languages
- Arabic (fusional)
- Uralic languages (agglutinative)
- Altaic languages (agglutinative)
- Basque (agglutinative nominal inflection / fusional verb inflection)
- Mainland Southeast Asian languages (isolating)
- Chinese
- Japanese (agglutinative)
- Auxiliary languages
- Esperanto
- Ido
- Interlingua
- See also
- Notes
- Citations
- References
- Further reading
- External links
- SIL articles
- Lexicon of Linguistics articles
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In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness. The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, while the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc. can be called declension.