adjective
- changed in form to express grammatical relationships such as tense, number, or case
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- English verbs are inflected to show past tense by adding -ed.
- The word ‘children’ is an inflected form of ‘child’.
- Latin nouns are heavily inflected for case and number.
- In the sentence ‘She runs,’ the verb ‘runs’ is inflected for third person singular.
- German adjectives are inflected differently depending on the article used.
- The inflected form ‘mice’ is the plural of ‘mouse’.