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INFLEXION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function

Synonyms:

inflection; inflexion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("inflexion" is a kind of...):

grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inflexion"):

conjugation (the inflection of verbs)

declension (the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages)

paradigm (systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word)

pluralisation; pluralization (the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to)

Derivation:

inflect (change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language)

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