inflection in Chinese
inflection in Chinese is 词形变化, 海湾 — inflection means (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
inflection in Chinese
词形变化
Pronounced: cí xíng biàn huà
(grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
海湾
Pronounced: hǎi wān
A turning away from a straight course.
What does "inflection" mean?
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noun (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
"The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages."
- noun (grammar) A particular kind of word change that applies to a certain group of words.
- noun (grammar) A letter or group of letters added to a word to show such a change.
- 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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inflection in a sentence
- The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages.
- In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.
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What is "inflection" in Chinese?
"inflection" in Chinese is 词形变化, 海湾. inflection means: (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
How do you pronounce 词形变化?
"inflection" in Chinese is 词形变化, pronounced "cí xíng biàn huà".
Are there other ways to say "inflection" in Chinese?
Yes — Chinese has 2 translations listed for "inflection": 词形变化, 海湾.
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