to inflect
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6.7
- verb
- /ɪnˈflɛkt/
- Specialized
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declinar
- inflected words
- inflected form
Examples
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The relation between spelling and morphological awareness, then, may depend on the degree to which students are required to spell inflected and derived words.
Academic text (2013) -
In the present study, the children were also required to spell words from a norm-referenced measure that contained inflected and derived words (i.e., WJ-III).
Academic text (2013) -
Dialectical errors included omitted inflected endings and shifts, such as plurals and verb tenses.
Academic text (1997) -
The latter half of the inflected and derived words involved a phonological and/or orthographic change from their base form (e.g., cry - cries).
Academic text (2013) -
In the first report (Apel, Brimo, et al., 2013), the 19 kindergarten and 21 first- and 21 second-grade children were provided an intervention focused on increasing awareness of affixes and the relations between base words and their inflected and derived forms.
Academic text (2014) -
In English, we inflect verbs to indicate past or present tense.
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Students learn that many languages inflect nouns for number and case.
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To form the past tense, you must inflect the base verb by adding 'ed' or another appropriate ending.
Synonyms
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6.5
To change the form of a verb to show who, how many, or when
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To change a noun or adjective form to show its role in a sentence
Antonyms
How Changed
Surface Forms
Morphology
inflect = in + flect
Although historically formed from in- + flect (bend), the root 'flect' is not an independent English word, so the grammatical sense is not transparently predictable from the parts for an average learner.
Etymology
Inflect comes from the Latin parts in- 'into' and flect 'to bend', the same root you see in flexible and reflect. So when a word is inflected, its form is 'bent' or changed to show tense, number, or its role in the sentence.