inflected
- adjective
- /ɪnˈflɛktɪd/
- Specialized
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flexionado
- OK, So what this means is that yet another thing that any could be is an inflected infinitive.
V where the the inflected form of the verb in the subordinate clause gets kind of shunted to the end of the clause, as we as we've discussed earlier.
- V where the the inflected form of the verb in the subordinate clause gets kind of shunted to the end of the clause, as we as we've discussed earlier.
Examples
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It's rather this isn't acting which gets inflected as masculine or feminine.
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Past and present participles are often inflected as adjectives, even when they form paraphrastic verb forms.
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In English, verbs are often inflected to show tense, such as 'walk' becoming 'walked.'
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In some languages, nouns are inflected for case, indicating their grammatical role in a sentence.
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In Spanish, adjectives must be inflected to agree with the nouns they modify in gender and number.
Antonyms
How Inflected
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inflected comes from the Latin parts in- 'into' and flectere 'to bend', the same root as flex. Think of adding an ending that 'bends' a word into a new form (like a tail) to show tense, number, or case, so an inflected word changes shape to show its grammar.
