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Process of word formation, by alteration to express grammatical categories
The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, whereas the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc. can be called declension. An inflection expresses
Inflection
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
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)
Altering a surname to reflect a condition such as gender or relationship.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Contextual alterations of verbs
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Concept in ethics, religion, 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
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
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
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
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
Indigenous language of South America
sentence for indicating someone's wish, permission, command, etc. Inflection or inflectional affixes, are the changes in a word to mark differentiations in
Guarani_language
Declensions in the Lithuanian language
nominative (vardininkas), used to identify inflection type genitive (kilmininkas), used to identify inflection type dative (naudininkas) accusative (galininkas)
Lithuanian_declension
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
Type of language morphology
is characterized by denoting syntactic relationships between words via inflection or agglutination. Synthetic languages are statistically characterized
Synthetic_language
Neologism from online manosphere communities
; Corpuz, George S. (22 December 2025). "Looksmaxxing: Straddling the Inflection Between Self-Enhancement and Self-Harm". Sage Journals 26893614251409793
Looksmaxxing
Real-time text-to-speech AI tool
games, television shows, and movies speak custom text with emotional inflections. The platform was able to generate convincing voice output using minimal
15.ai
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Grammar of the Slovincian language
by a high degree of inflection, a lack of articles, and vowel, consonant, and stress alternations. Slovincian has an inflectional system mostly inherited
Slovincian_grammar
On inflection points of spherical curves
equal-area subsets without touching or crossing itself must have at least four inflection points, points at which the curve does not consistently bend to only one
Tennis_ball_theorem
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
Language with a very low morpheme per word ratio
of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme case, each word contains a single
Isolating_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
US artificial intelligence company
companies via Greylock Partners, and his co-founding of the AI startup Inflection AI. Hoffman remained on the board of Microsoft, a major investor in OpenAI
OpenAI
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
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
English-language vernacular inflected form
Ain't (pronounced as /eɪnt/) is a negative inflection for am, is, are, has, and have in informal English. In some dialects, it is also used for do, does
Ain't
American stand-up comedian and actress (born 1970)
erratic" with "seemingly unrelated tangents and constantly varying vocal inflections". David Sims of The Atlantic noted her roles and voice work as having
Maria_Bamford
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
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
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
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
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
Adjectives in Japanese
inflect in an identical manner as the negative form of verbs. Their inflections are different and not so numerous as full verbs. i-adjectives are considered
Japanese_adjectives
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)
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
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
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
Plane_cubic_curve
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
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
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
Grammar of the Polish language
The grammar of the Polish language is characterized by a high degree of inflection, and has relatively free word order, although the dominant arrangement
Polish_grammar
Kana suffixes following kanji stems in Japanese written words
English, which, being more familiar, help in understanding okurigana. As an inflection example, when writing Xing for cross-ing, as in Ped Xing (pedestrian crossing)
Okurigana
American singer and actor (1915–1998)
sound in the low. His voice is built on infinite taste, with an overall inflection of sex. He points everything he does from a sexual standpoint". Despite
Frank_Sinatra
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
Words formed of two or more morphemes
through morphological processes such as compounding, derivation, and inflection. Morphemes are defined as the smallest meaning-bearing units within a
Complex_words
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
West Germanic language
not declined in the singular. The plural has an inflection for the dative. In total, seven inflectional endings (not counting plural markers) exist in
German_language
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
Island country in the Atlantic Ocean
the other Nordic languages; Icelandic has preserved more verb and noun inflection, and has to a considerable extent developed new vocabulary based on native
Iceland
American singer-songwriter (born 2001)
pop, pop rock, and teen pop labels, with dark pop and indie electronic inflections. She has delved into downtempo and jazz pop styles on her second album
Billie_Eilish
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
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
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
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
Creation of new lexemes or the process of changing words
particular language A common method of word formation is the attachment of inflectional or derivational affixes. Examples include: the words governor, government
Word_formation
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
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
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
American ring announcer
distinct announcing style in which he rolls certain letters and adds other inflections to a fighter’s name, and known for his trademarked catchphrase: "Let's
Michael_Buffer
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
Constructed language based on Esperanto
Universal is an Esperantido, a constructed language based on Esperanto. It has inclusive and exclusive pronouns, uses partial reduplication for the plural
Universal_(Esperantido)
study of the morphological and syntactic structures, word order, case inflections, verb conjugation and other grammatical structures of Odia, an Indo-Aryan
Odia_grammar
Grammatical rules of the Lithuanian language
Lithuanian grammar has a highly inflectional morphology. Its nouns are inflected for numbers and cases. Its verbs are inflected for person, tense-aspect-mood
Lithuanian_grammar
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 animated sitcom
actors speak within their normal vocal range while adding a childlike inflection. The recorded audio is then edited with Pro Tools, and the pitch is altered
South_Park
Grammar of the Faroese language
three grammatical genders, two numbers and four cases in the nominal inflection. This is an overview - Faroese has more declensions than are listed here
Faroese_grammar
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
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
Use of an uninflected be in certain varieties of English
uninflected be (such as "she be singing") instead of Standard English inflection (such as "she sings") to convey habitual or extended actions like a habit
Habitual_be
Dialect of Polish spoken in Poland
Jasionówka, w can sometimes change to u, or sometimes to ł (typically in inflections): u chlewie (w chlewie), budynkoł (budynków). kt shifts to cht: chto
Podlachian_dialect
Literary form of Japanese, used until the early 20th century
modern inflections. For example, the bungo inflection of the verb 書く (kaku, "to write") is quadrigrade (kaka, kaki, kaku, kake), but its kōgo inflection is
Classical_Japanese
Grammatical number
(superplural) A given language may make plural forms of nouns by various types of inflection, including the addition of affixes, like the English -(e)s and -ies suffixes
Plural
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
travel, tourism, insurance
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travel, tourism, insurance