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inflection

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"Grammar ending change"

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10 lettersPronunciation /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/Part of speech nounSorted cefiilnnotStarts with IEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

Word origin

From older inflexion, borrowed from Middle French inflexion, itself borrowed from Latin inflexiōnem (“alteration”, literally “bending”). The English spelling with ⟨ct⟩ is due to influence from inflect or related words like correction.

Used in a sentence

  • In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.
  • The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages.
  • English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.

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