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inflectional Definition

in·flec·tional (in flek′s̸hə nəl)

adjective

  1. of, having, or expressing grammatical inflection an inflectional suffix
  2. characterized by the use of inflection to express grammatical relations Greek and Latin are inflectional languages

inflectional Related Forms
in·flec′·tion·ally adverb
inflectional Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • affix: The derivational affixes stand for the first degree of the scale, the inflectional affixes stand for the second degree.
  • morphology: These results provide constraining data for models of inflectional morphology.
  • paradigm: The lemmas are the whole inflectional paradigm for a noun or a verb, e.g. walk, walks, walking, walked.
  • ending: In Old English the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives were uniformly marked by inflectional endings; compare modern English greater and greatest.
  • category: Such words have more in common semantically with minor syntactic categories ( so-called function words ) and inflectional categories.
  • form: From the 1420s on, the inflectional form prevails in approximately 60 % of the instances recorded.

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: On large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of highly inflectional language - Czech.