Inflect
/ɪnˈflɛkt/
To inflect means to change a word's form to express grammatical differences such as tense, number, or case.
Examples
- Verbs in English often inflect for past tense by adding -ed.
- Nouns inflect to show plural or possessive forms.
- Old English had more complex ways to inflect nouns than modern English.
- Languages like Latin inflect words much more than English does.
- She inflected the verb correctly in her essay.
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