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inflected

inflected

7.2
Words that change endings to show tense, number, or case
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈflɛktɪd/
  • Specialized
: 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.

Examples

  • It's rather this isn't acting which gets inflected as masculine or feminine.

  • Past and present participles are often inflected as adjectives, even when they form paraphrastic verb forms.

  • In English, verbs are often inflected to show tense, such as 'walk' becoming 'walked.'

  • In some languages, nouns are inflected for case, indicating their grammatical role in a sentence.

  • In Spanish, adjectives must be inflected to agree with the nouns they modify in gender and number.

Antonyms

uninflected
  • Specialized
8.8

Not changed in form to show time, amount, or part in a sentence

How Inflected

inflected
  • Specialized
7.2
uninflected
  • Specialized
8.8

Surface Forms

inflected positive

Morphology

inflected = inflect (transparent) = inflect + ed

This is a regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'inflect', and the meaning directly follows from the base verb.

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.