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bøjning — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • conjugation noun The act of coming together, or the state of being joined.
  • inflection noun (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
  • turn verb To move or rotate around an axis, or to change direction.

Senses

bøjning is used for these senses in English:

  • conjugation (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take.
  • conjugation (grammar) The product of that act: the conjugated forms of a verb, collected into a list or recitation.
  • inflection (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
  • turn A change of direction or orientation.

conjugation — full definition

  1. noun The act of coming together, or the state of being joined.
  2. noun (biology) A brief joining of two organisms, especially in order to reproduce.
  3. noun (dated) Sex between a husband and wife.
  4. noun (grammar) A group that verbs in some languages fall into, based on how their endings change.

inflection — full definition

  1. noun (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
  2. noun (grammar) A particular kind of word change that applies to a certain group of words.
  3. noun (grammar) A letter or group of letters added to a word to show such a change.
  4. noun Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
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