Definition of Inflects. Meaning of Inflects. Synonyms of Inflects

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Definition of Inflects

Inflect
Inflect In*flect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting.] [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in.- in + flectere to bend. See Flexibl, and cf. Inflex.] 1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle ? --Sir I. Newton. 2. (Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. 3. To modulate, as the voice.

Meaning of Inflects from wikipedia

- Danish and Swedish only inflect for two different genders while Norwegian has to some degree retained the feminine forms and inflects for three grammatical...
- Neo-Aramaic and Amharic. For example, the Arabic preposition على (/ʕalaː) 'on' inflects as علَيَّ (/ʕalajːa/) 'on me', علَيْكَ) (/ʕalajka/) 'on you M.SG)', علَيْهِ...
- Fusional languages or inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use single...
- indefinite. They often agree with the noun in number. They do not typically inflect for degree of comparison. English pronouns conserve many traits of case...
- Turkish. The definite article in Spanish, corresponding to "the", is el. It inflects for gender and number as follows: Thus: el hombre = "[the] man" los hombres...
- An inverted arch or invert is a civil engineering structure in the form of an inverted arch, inverted in comparison to the usual arch bridge. Like the...
- and particles. Tagalog is an agglutinative yet slightly inflected language. Pronouns are inflected for number and verbs for focus/voice and aspect. Tagalog...
- can be a large number of words derived from the same root. German nouns inflect by case, gender, and number: four cases: nominative, accusative, genitive...
- if the second and third root consonants are the same), which generally inflects for case but not for gender or number. Furthermore, elatives belong to...
- they are indexed. Lexeme, in this context, refers to the set of all the inflected or alternating forms in the paradigm of a single word, and lemma refers...