adjective
- relating to or involving inflection, especially the change in form of a word to express grammatical relationships
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- English has fewer inflectional endings than Latin.
- The inflectional suffix ‘-ed’ marks past tense in regular verbs.
- Students studied the inflectional patterns of irregular verbs.
- German has a complex inflectional system for nouns and adjectives.
- The inflectional morphology of the language was difficult to master.
- Inflectional changes help indicate the subject and object in sentences.