adverb
- in a manner relating to or involving inflection; with respect to changes in the form of words to express grammatical relationships
Usage: linguistics term; formal/academic
Examples
- English and German differ inflectionally in how they mark case on nouns.
- The two languages are inflectionally similar, both using suffixes to indicate tense.
- Inflectionally, Spanish verbs are more complex than English verbs.
- The words are related inflectionally through a common root.
- These languages are inflectionally distinct in their treatment of gender.