adjective
- relating to or characterized by inflection, especially the variation of word forms to express grammatical relationships
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- Latin is a highly inflective language with complex verb conjugations.
- English has fewer inflective endings than many other languages.
- The inflective nature of Russian makes it challenging for English speakers.
- Students studied the inflective patterns of irregular verbs.
- German’s inflective system includes case markings on nouns and adjectives.
- The linguist analyzed the inflective morphology of ancient Greek.