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Process of word formation, by alteration to express grammatical categories
The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, while the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc. can be called declension. An inflection expresses
Inflection
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up inflection or inflect in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Inflection (or inflexion), is the modification of a word to express grammatical information
Inflection_(disambiguation)
Point where the curvature of a curve changes sign
differential calculus and differential geometry, an inflection point, point of inflection, flex, or inflection (rarely inflexion) is a point on a smooth plane
Inflection_point
Artificial intelligence company
Inflection AI, Inc. is an American technology company which has developed machine learning and generative artificial intelligence hardware and apps, founded
Inflection_AI
In some languages and countries, surname inflection (Czech: přechylování příjmení, Polish: odmiana nazwiska, Slovak: prechyľovanie priezviska) refers to
Surname_inflection
Verb conjugation system
unambiguous inflections. weak: der gute Wein (nom) den guten Wein (acc) dem guten Wein (dat) - articles signal case, so adjectives need less inflectional specificity
Weak_inflection
Verb conjugation system
A strong inflection is a system of verb conjugation or noun/adjective declension which can be contrasted with an alternative system in the same language
Strong_inflection
British AI entrepreneur (born 1984)
company which was acquired by Google. After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company, in 2022. Suleyman's
Mustafa_Suleyman
Zero of the derivative of a function
horizontal inflection points. For example, the function x ↦ x 3 {\displaystyle x\mapsto x^{3}} has a stationary point at x = 0, which is also an inflection point
Stationary_point
Smallest meaningful unit in a language
applying inflectional morphemes to words are adding -s to the root dog to form dogs and adding -ed to wait to form waited. An inflectional morpheme changes
Morpheme
Variation in pitch
In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal
Intonation_(linguistics)
Morpheme placed at the end of a word
carry grammatical information (inflectional endings) or lexical information (derivational/lexical suffixes). Inflection changes the grammatical properties
Suffix
One of the Norwegian language standards
characterized by noun inflection alone; each gender can have further inflectional forms. That is, gender can determine the inflection of other parts of speech
Nynorsk
Creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection
is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar). For instance, the
Grammatical_conjugation
Forming a new word on the basis of an existing one
happiness derive from the root word happy. It is differentiated from inflection, which is the modification of a word to form different grammatical categories
Morphological_derivation
Terms in music theory to characterize scales
explicit degree-inflection culminates in the madrigals of Marenzio and Gesualdo, which are remote from medieval traditions of unspecified inflection, and co-exists
Diatonic_and_chromatic
Aspect of the German language
endings, in order masculine, feminine, neuter, plural, for the different inflection cases. For example, "X e X e" denotes "ein, eine, ein, eine"; and "m r
German_adjectives
Polynomial function of degree 3
function has always a single inflection point, which occurs at x inflection = − b 3 a . {\displaystyle x_{\text{inflection}}=-{\frac {b}{3a}}.} The graph
Cubic_function
North Germanic language
form of written Danish. Knud Knudsen proposed to change spelling and inflection in accordance with the Dano-Norwegian koiné, known as "cultivated everyday
Norwegian_language
Concept in religion, ethics, and philosophy
ancient and contemporary languages show substantial variation in its inflection and meaning, depending on circumstances of place and history, or of philosophical
Good
Linguistic system of noun classification
Grammatical gender can be realized as inflection and can be conditioned by other types of inflection, especially number inflection, where the singular-plural contrast
Grammatical_gender
American internet entrepreneur (born 1967)
also chairman of venture capital firm Village Global, a co-founder of Inflection AI, a co-founder of Manas AI, and a board member at Arc Institute. Hoffman
Reid_Hoffman
Language where one kind of inflection indicates multiple changes of aspect
distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use single inflectional morphemes to denote multiple grammatical, syntactic, or semantic features
Fusional_language
Public radio station in San Francisco
KALW Public Media (91.7 MHz) is a non-commercial FM public radio station and independent non-profit serving the San Francisco Bay Area. KALW operates as
KALW
Stage of the Japanese language
part means Inflectional suffix. Inflectional form = (stem) + Inflectional suffix (活(かつ)用(よう)形(けい) = 語(ご)幹(かん) + 活用語(ご)尾(び)) Inflectional suffix = root
Early_Middle_Japanese
Type of mathematical curve
exactly one inflection point. A cubic with an ordinary double point has three colinear inflection points; over the reals, the three inflection points are
Cubic_plane_curve
English polymath (1642–1727)
for various phenomena, including the emission, reflection, refraction, inflection, and heating effects of light. He proposed that electricity was involved
Isaac_Newton
Intonation pattern in some varieties of English
The high rising terminal (HRT), also known as rising inflection, upspeak, uptalk, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some variants of English
High_rising_terminal
Indigenous language of South America
same person and non-person distinction as negative pronouns. Inflection or inflectional affixes, are the changes in a word to mark differentiations in
Guarani_language
Type of language morphology
is characterized by denoting syntactic relationships between words via inflection or agglutination. Synthetic languages are statistically characterized
Synthetic_language
Grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to which something is given
("case for giving"), a translation of Greek δοτικὴ πτῶσις, dotikē ptôsis ("inflection for giving"). Dionysius Thrax in his The Art of Grammar also refers to
Dative_case
Unit of lexical meaning
lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis
Lexeme
Study of words and their formation
inflectional rules, but those of the second kind are rules of word formation. The generation of the English plural dogs from dog is an inflectional rule
Morphology_(linguistics)
Grammatical rules of the Vedic Sanskrit language
Proto-Indo-European language: Vedic used the older athematic approach to inflection far more than the classical language, which tended to replace them using
Vedic_Sanskrit_grammar
English-language vernacular inflected form
Ain't is a negative inflection for am, is, are, has, and have in informal English. In some dialects, it is also used for do, does, did, and will. The development
Ain't
Book by Isaac Newton
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a collection of three books by Isaac Newton that was published
Opticks
Latin-based international auxiliary language
Latino sine flexione ("Latin without inflections"), Interlingua de Academia pro Interlingua (IL de ApI) or Peano's Interlingua (abbreviated as IL) is
Latino_sine_flexione
Most widely spoken of all Sámi languages
fit into the even or odd inflection patterns. Words with penultimate stress ending in a consonant will follow the odd inflection: nēon /ˈneː.on/ "neon"
Northern_Sámi
Sharp, bitter remark
irony. Most noticeable in speech, sarcasm is mainly distinguished by the inflection with which it is spoken or, with an undercurrent of irony, by the extreme
Sarcasm
Inflection of words according to number, gender, and/or case
generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence by way of an inflection. Declension may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and determiners
Declension
Linguistics theory about syntax
sentence (or a clause) necessarily involves an element that determines the inflection of a verb. Assuming that S constitutes an IP, the structure of the sentence
X-bar_theory
Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc. in German
weak inflection, but in forms where the weak inflection has the ending -e, the mixed inflection replaces these with the forms of the strong inflection (shown
German_declension
East Slavic language
where a single inflectional morpheme at the end of a word is used to denote multiple grammatical features. In addition to inflection for morphology Russian
Russian_language
Austronesian language of Palau
Palauan (a tekoi er a Belau) is a Malayo-Polynesian language native to the Republic of Palau, where it is one of the two official languages, alongside
Palauan_language
Reconstructed ancestor of the Australian language family
internal reconstruction to explain the historical development of TAM inflection across conjugations. In nearly all Australian languages, there are one
Proto-Australian_language
British politician (born 1986)
inflection points". Retrieved 16 September 2025. Courea, Eleni (5 August 2024). "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf: 'I've always been good at spotting inflection
Zia_Yusuf
Basic elements of language
basis of morphology as the basic element of grammatical paradigms like inflection, different from word-forms; within semantics as the smallest and relatively
Word
West Germanic language
modern German: nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs had many more inflectional endings and forms, and word order was much freer than in Modern English
English_language
2026 shooting by US Border Patrol agents
a court order and not allowing anyone to look at it" represented "an inflection point in America". Minnesota senators Amy Klobuchar (D), a candidate in
Killing_of_Alex_Pretti
American actress and activist (born 1937)
fair to wonder if she could personify someone from the past; her voice, inflections, and ways of moving have always seemed totally contemporary. But once
Jane_Fonda
Portuguese-based creole of Cape Verde
uncommon. Only the animated nouns (human beings and animals) have gender inflection. Ex.: inglês / ingléza "Englishman / Englishwoman" porku / pórka "pig
Cape_Verdean_Creole
Categorization of nouns and modifiers by function
construction (an "enclitic postposition") or as an inflection of the last word of a phrase ("edge inflection"). Yaşamı sevmek, gazeteyi okumak, camları silmek
Grammatical_case
American businessman (1936-2016)
changes is transformation. Grove popularized the concept of the "strategic inflection point," a crucial time that demands a major change in strategy due to
Andrew_Grove
Indo-European language of the Italic branch
the Catholic Church. Latin grammar is highly fusional, with classes of inflections for case, number, person, gender, tense, mood, voice, and aspect. The
Latin
Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
below. The only types of inflectional processes in the language are on verbs for the person and number of the subject, inflection of inalienable nouns for
Mbula_language
Earliest historical form of English language
English grammar, the nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs have many inflectional endings and forms, and word order is much freer. The oldest Old English
Old_English
This is a list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used
List_of_grammatical_cases
Grammar of the Polish language
the Polish language is complex and characterized by a high degree of inflection, and has relatively free word order, although the dominant arrangement
Polish_grammar
In mathematics, straight line touching a plane curve without crossing it
crosses the curve is called an inflection point. Circles, parabolas, hyperbolas and ellipses do not have any inflection point, but more complicated curves
Tangent
Large language model developed by Google
Ultra was said to have outperformed GPT-4, Anthropic's Claude 2, Inflection AI's Inflection-2, Meta's LLaMA 2, and xAI's Grok 1 on a variety of industry benchmarks
Gemini_(language_model)
American actor (1916–2003)
amateurishly mannered performance with its wearisome trick of delivery and inflection, makes (the movie) seem even more unrealistic," and John Howard Reid wrote
Gregory_Peck
Proposed inflectional class of the Proto-Indo-European verb
Narten present is a proposed inflectional class of the Proto-Indo-European verb, named after the Indo-Iranianist Johanna Narten who posited its existence
Narten_present
Classification of verbs by regularity of inflection
This is one instance of the distinction between regular and irregular inflection, which can also apply to other word classes, such as nouns and adjectives
Regular_and_irregular_verbs
Declensions in the Lithuanian language
nominative (vardininkas); used to identify the inflection type genitive (kilmininkas); used to identify the inflection type dative (naudininkas) accusative (galininkas)
Lithuanian_declension
Declined according to case, state, gender and number
following table shows some examples of noun inflections. The following table shows some examples of adjective inflections. Arabic distinguishes between nouns
Arabic_nouns_and_adjectives
Grammar of the Swedish language
Compared to its progenitor, Swedish grammar is much less characterized by inflection. Modern Swedish has two genders and no longer conjugates verbs based on
Swedish_grammar
Lexical core of a word without affixes
describe the word without its inflectional endings, but with its lexical endings in place. For example, chatters has the inflectional root or lemma chatter,
Root_(linguistics)
Language whose grammar rarely uses word inflection
languages have a low morpheme-per-word ratio, especially with respect to inflectional morphemes. No natural language, however, is purely analytic or purely
Analytic_language
Part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning
carries the tone of the word. Typically, a stem remains unmodified during inflection with few exceptions due to apophony (for example in Polish, miast-o ("city")
Word_stem
Portuguese personal pronouns and possessives display a higher degree of inflection than other parts of speech. Personal pronouns have distinct forms according
Personal pronouns in Portuguese
Personal_pronouns_in_Portuguese
Polynomial equation of degree 3
the inflection point of the original cubic (where the curvature changes sign), so the transformation simply centers the cubic around the inflection point
Cubic_equation
Nouns that follow weak inflection
Weak nouns are nouns that follow a weak inflection paradigm, in contrast with strong nouns. They are present in several Germanic languages. Modern English
Weak_noun
Spoken interjection in English
as a continuation or sometimes, inflection is added and it's used as a confirmation, or with different inflection, a question. For example, "I was walking
Eh
Person who prepares and serves coffee drinks
A barista (/bəˈriːstə, -ˈrɪs-/ bə-REE-stə, bə-RIST-ə, Italian: [baˈrista]; lit. 'bartender') is a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares
Barista
Israeli armoured personnel carrier
The Achzarit (אכזרית in Hebrew: "cruel", feminine inflection) is a heavily armoured personnel carrier manufactured by the Israeli Defence Forces Corps
Achzarit
Way of classifying the world's languages
words by combining morphemes. Analytic languages contain very little inflection, instead relying on features like word order and auxiliary words to convey
Morphological_typology
Mathematical operation
occurs is called an inflection point. Assuming the second derivative is continuous, it must take a value of zero at any inflection point, although not
Second_derivative
Dialect of Macedonian
Nominal inflection Gender Nominative Oblique Masculine (sg.) муж мужа Masculine (pl.) мужи мужи Feminine (sg.) жена жену Feminine (pl.) жене жене Neuter
Kumanovo_dialect
These include agglutination, a rich array of noun classes, extensive inflection for person (both subject and object), tense, aspect and mood, and generally
Swahili_grammar
Morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word
new word or word form. The two main categories are derivational and inflectional affixes. Derivational affixes, such as un-, -ation, anti-, and pre-,
Affix
Dialect of Polish spoken in Poland
The Suwałki dialect (Polish: gwara suwalska) belongs to the Masovian dialect group and is located in the part of Poland. It borders the Podlachia dialect
Suwałki_dialect
Closed lexical category of the English language
person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as
Personal_pronouns_in_English
Artificial intelligence division of Microsoft
appointed DeepMind and Inflection AI co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as Executive Vice President (EVP) and CEO and hired fellow Inflection AI co-founder Karén
Microsoft_AI
Colombian singer-songwriter (born 1977)
Spanish yodeling and it is her very Arabic roots that shape her vocal inflections and the use of double harmonic scales and the Major Locrian scale in
Shakira
Morpheme with no phonetic form
org. Retrieved 2019-12-05. Russian Language Institute, question 210775 Note: All of the examples under the Inflection heading come from the same source.
Null_morpheme
Northern Siberian Turkic language
The Yakut language (/jəˈkuːt/ yə-KOOT), also known as the Sakha language (/səˈxɑː/ sə-KHAH) or Yakutian, is a Siberian Turkic language spoken by around
Yakut_language
American rapper and songwriter (born 1987)
With Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, he liberally plays with pronunciation, inflections, and delivery to mirror the album's emotional range. Lamar possesses
Kendrick_Lamar
Clause type associated with questions
they form interrogatives. When a language has a dedicated interrogative inflectional form, it is often referred to as interrogative grammatical mood. Interrogative
Interrogative
Small set of grammatically distinctive verbs of English
not (He has not arrived) or (with a very few exceptions) by negative inflection (He hasn't arrived). When describing English, the adjective auxiliary
English_auxiliary_verbs
Condition of reduced emotional reactivity in an individual
are rare and there is little animation in facial expression or vocal inflection. Additionally, reduced affect can be symptomatic of autism, schizophrenia
Reduced_affect_display
Sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information
(quality) within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional). It is also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation
Apophony
Loss of a sound within a word
languages, syncope occurs in inflection, poetry, and informal speech. In languages such as Irish and Hebrew, the process of inflection can cause syncope: Verbs:
Syncope_(phonology)
Totonacan language of central Mexico
language, making extensive use of both prefixes and suffixes for inflection, quasi-inflection, and derivation. The verb has nine relatively ordered prefixal
Upper_Necaxa_Totonac
Affix which is placed before the stem of a word
to which it is affixed. Prefixes, like other affixes, can be either inflectional, creating a new form of a word with the same basic meaning and same lexical
Prefix
2020–2023 police brutality protests
hours of May 26. Public outrage over the contents of the video became an inflection point that sparked the largest civil-rights protests in U.S. history as
George_Floyd_protests
Group of islands in the South Atlantic
person plural pronouns are used, such as "y'all" and "you's". Verbal inflectional morphology is simplified, as in "She sing real good" and "They never
Tristan_da_Cunha
Group of Lombard dialects
using Milanese orthography as a reference. Most feminine nouns end in the inflection -a in the singular. The feminine plural form is typically non-inflected
Western_Lombard_dialects
Grammatical case
was translated from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικὴ πτῶσις, onomastikḗ ptôsis "inflection for naming", from onomázō "call by name", from ónoma "name". Dionysius
Nominative_case
Non-fluent aphasia
expressive aphasia and traumatic brain injury.[citation needed] Verb inflection for tense has been found to be problematic in several languages. Scholars
Agrammatism
Shorthand to convey tone or intent
lacks the nonverbal cues of face‑to‑face interaction – such as vocal inflection, facial expressions, and body language – tone indicators serve as their
Tone_indicator
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Newenham, itself a variant of Newham, with the adjective (Old English nēowe ‘new’) retaining the weak dative -an inflection, originally used after a preposition and article. The English surname is also established in Ireland (County Cork), having been taken there by an English family in the mid 17th century.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places, for example in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, and Suffolk, so called from Old English stÅw, a word akin to stoc (see Stoke), with the specialized meaning ‘meeting place’, frequently referring to a holy place or church. Places in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire having this origin use the spelling Stowe, but the spelling difference cannot be relied on as an indication of locality of origin. The final -e in part represents a trace of the Old English dative inflection.Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.A John Stowe settled in Roxbury, MA, and took the freeman’s oath in 1634.
INFLECTION
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Boy/Male
British, English
Wealthy
Boy/Male
Tamil
Winner over obstacles
Boy/Male
Australian, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Always Smile; Flower of Love; Everywhere; Lord Shiva; Sai Baba; Swami; Flower; Friend; Blessing
Biblical
nativity; generation;begetter;
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Malayalam
Cloud
Female
Danish
, mountain ugly.
Male
Romanian
Pet form of Romanian Constantin, COSTEL means "steadfast."
Female
Bulgarian
(Љубина), love.
Boy/Male
Indian
Who has the secret, Confidant
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Celtic, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Irish, Netherlands, Scottish
Bramble; Raven; Father of Many; He who is High is Father; Irish Form of Abraham; A Thicket of Wild Gorse; Abbreviation of Abraham and Abram
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n.
Inflection.
a.
Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.
n.
A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem.
n.
One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
n.
A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension.
a.
Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.
n.
Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
a.
Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection.
n.
The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
a.
Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air.
n.
An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.
n.
A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
n.
The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.
n.
Same as Diffraction.
v. i.
To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.
n.
A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.
n.
An inflection; a bend or fold.
a.
Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.
a.
Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection.
a.
Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.