inflection in Japanese
inflection in Japanese is 語形変化 — inflection means (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
inflection in Japanese
語形変化
Pronounced: gokeihenka
(grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
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 Japanese?
"inflection" in Japanese is 語形変化. inflection means: (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
How do you pronounce 語形変化?
"inflection" in Japanese is 語形変化, pronounced "gokeihenka".
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