inflection in Portuguese
inflection in Portuguese is flexão, entonação, inflexão — inflection means (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
inflection in Portuguese
flexão
(grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
entonação
A change in pitch or tone of voice.
inflexão
A change in pitch or tone of voice.
inflexão
(mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
desvio
A turning away from a straight course.
inflexão
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 Portuguese?
"inflection" in Portuguese is flexão, entonação, inflexão. 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 Portuguese?
Yes — Portuguese has 4 translations listed for "inflection": flexão, entonação, inflexão, desvio.
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