inflection in Danish
inflection in Danish is vendepunkt, bøjning, modulation — inflection means (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
inflection in Danish
vendepunkt
bøjning
(grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
modulation
A change in pitch or tone of voice.
afvigelse
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 Danish?
"inflection" in Danish is vendepunkt, bøjning, modulation. inflection means: (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
Are there other ways to say "inflection" in Danish?
Yes — Danish has 4 translations listed for "inflection": vendepunkt, bøjning, modulation, afvigelse.
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