taivutus — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bending noun The action of curving or forcing something out of a straight line.
- conjugation noun The act of coming together, or the state of being joined.
- declension noun A gradual decline, decay, or fall.
- inflection noun (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
Senses
taivutus is used for these senses in English:
- bending Capable of being bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
- conjugation (grammar) The product of that act: the conjugated forms of a verb, collected into a list or recitation.
- declension (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
- inflection (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
bending — full definition
- noun The action of curving or forcing something out of a straight line.
- adjective Able to bend or flex without breaking.
conjugation — full definition
- noun The act of coming together, or the state of being joined.
- noun (biology) A brief joining of two organisms, especially in order to reproduce.
- noun (dated) Sex between a husband and wife.
- noun (grammar) A group that verbs in some languages fall into, based on how their endings change.
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