adjective
- capable of being inflected or changed in form to express grammatical relationships
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- Most nouns in English are inflectable for number.
- Verbs are highly inflectable in many languages.
- The word ‘sheep’ is inflectable but has the same form for singular and plural.
- Adjectives in Spanish are inflectable for gender and number.
- Some languages have more inflectable word classes than others.
- Pronouns are typically inflectable for case in languages that have case systems.