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entonação — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • inflection noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
  • intonation noun The rise and fall of the voice in speech, which conveys meaning, mood, or whether a sentence is a statement or a question.

Senses

entonação is used for these senses in English:

  • inflection A change in pitch or tone of voice.
  • intonation (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.

inflection — full definition

  1. noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
  2. noun Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given class of terms.
  3. noun An affix representing a given variation.
  4. 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.

intonation — full definition

  1. noun The rise and fall of the voice in speech, which conveys meaning, mood, or whether a sentence is a statement or a question.
  2. noun Accuracy of pitch when singing or playing an instrument.

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