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Meaning of "inflectional" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INFLECTIONAL

inflectional  [ɪnˈflekʃənəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFLECTIONAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inflectional is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INFLECTIONAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Inflection

In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. The inflection of verbs is also called conjugation, and the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns is also called declension. An inflection expresses one or more grammatical categories with a prefix, suffix or infix, or another internal modification such as a vowel change. For example, the Latin verb ducam, meaning "I will lead", includes the suffix -am, expressing person, number, and tense. The use of this suffix is an inflection. In contrast, in the English clause "I will lead", the word lead is not inflected for any of person, number, or tense; it is simply the bare form of a verb. The inflected form of a word often contains both a free morpheme, and a bound morpheme. For example, the English word cars is a noun that is inflected for number, specifically to express the plural; the content morpheme car is unbound because it could stand alone as a word, while the suffix -s is bound because it cannot stand alone as a word.

Definition of inflectional in the English dictionary

The definition of inflectional in the dictionary is relating to inflections.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFLECTIONAL


complexional
kəmˈplekʃənəl
connexional
kəˈnekʃənəl
convectional
kənˈvekʃənəl
correctional
kəˈrɛkʃənəl
cross-sectional
ˌkrɒsˈsɛkʃənəl
directional
dɪˈrɛkʃənəl
dysfunctional
dɪsˈfʌŋkʃənəl
evectional
ɪˈvekʃənəl
flectional
ˈflekʃənəl
fractional
ˈfrækʃənəl
functional
ˈfʌŋkʃənəl
inflexional
ɪnˈflekʃənəl
inspectional
ɪnˈspekʃənəl
instructional
ɪnˈstrʌkʃənəl
interjectional
ˌɪntəˈdʒekʃənəl
multidirectional
ˌmʌltɪdɪˈrekʃənəl
multifunctional
ˌmʌltɪˈfʌŋkʃənəl
resurrectional
ˌrezəˈrekʃənəl
sectional
ˈsɛkʃənəl
transactional
trænˈzækʃənəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFLECTIONAL

inflator
inflatus
inflect
inflectable
inflected
inflectedness
inflection
inflectionally
inflectionless
inflective
inflector
inflexed
inflexibility
inflexible
inflexibleness
inflexibly
inflexion
inflexional
inflexionally
inflexionless

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFLECTIONAL

additional
constitutional
conventional
dimensional
educational
emotional
exceptional
inspirational
institutional
international
national
operational
optional
personal
professional
promotional
regional
the National
the Second International
traditional
transitional

Synonyms and antonyms of inflectional in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «inflectional» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFLECTIONAL

Find out the translation of inflectional to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inflectional from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inflectional» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

屈折
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inflexional
570 millions of speakers

English

inflectional
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विभक्ति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إعرابي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

словоизменительный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inflectional
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পথচু্যতিসম্বন্ধীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

flexionnel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inflektif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

inflectional
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

屈折の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

굴절
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inflectional
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

biến tố
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

inflectional
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मध्यांतराचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çekim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

flessivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fleksyjnym
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

словозмінна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

flexionara
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κλινόμενα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

inflectionele
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inflectional
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bøyings
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inflectional

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFLECTIONAL»

The term «inflectional» is regularly used and occupies the 74.489 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFLECTIONAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inflectional

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFLECTIONAL»

Discover the use of inflectional in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inflectional and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Morphology by Itself: Stems and Inflectional Classes
In this monograph Mark Aronoff argues that linguists must consider morphology by itself, not merely as an appendage of syntax and phonology, and that linguistic theory must allow for a separate and autonomous morphological component.
Mark Aronoff, 1994
2
Inflectional Morphology: A Theoretical Study Based on ...
The book is addressed to theoretical and descriptive linguists in general and no knowledge of Latin is assumed.
Peter Hugoe Matthews, 1972
3
Inflectional Morphology: A Theory of Paradigm Structure
This book differs from other recent works on the same subject in that it treats inflectional morphology as an autonomous system of principles rather than as a subsystem of syntax or phonology and it draws upon evidence from a diverse range ...
Gregory T. Stump, 2001
4
Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives From Romance ...
This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the structure of grammar.
Martin Maiden, Maria Goldbach, 2011
5
#7 The Peaches on the Beaches: A Book about Inflectional Endings
Uses rhyme, repetition, illustration, and phonics to introduce inflectional ending.
Brian P. Cleary, 2009
6
Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication
The distinction between inflectional and derivational affixes in English is based on a number of factors. First, inflectional affixes never change the category (part of speech) of the base morpheme (the morpheme to which they are attached).
Adrian Akmajian, 2001
7
Time, Tense and Aspect in Early Vedic Grammar: Exploring ...
Drawing on insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, this book presents a comprehensive account of the tense/aspect/mood system in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda.
Eystein Dahl, 2010
8
Middle Voice in Modern Greek: Meaning and Function of an ...
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek.
Linda Joyce Manney, 2000
9
The Linguistic Structure of Modern English
Self-Testing Exercise:To practice identifying roots, prefixes, and suffixes, do Exercise 4.1. Affixes may be of two types, derivational or inflectional, which have very different characteristics. A derivational affix in English is either a prefix or a suffix.
Laurel J. Brinton, Donna Brinton, 2010
10
The Acquisition of French: The Development of Inflectional ...
This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by ...
Philippe Prévost, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFLECTIONAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inflectional is used in the context of the following news items.
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Extreme Claim Against Extreme Debt Hound
He demands punitive damages for RICO violations, violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, privacy invasion, intentional inflectional ... «Courthouse News Service, Jul 15»
2
2 People With Injuries After Crash
Inflectional services and Boston Police are on scene. Stay with necn and necn.com as this story develops. Published at 11:41 AM EDT on Jun ... «NECN, Jun 15»
3
Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) In Worries to Gets Patent in …
... medicince more related to the blood related cancers and other inflectional decease related to blood. CTI BioPharma's main market is Europe. «StreetWise Report, Jun 15»
4
Latin students take on summer-long translation project
... with a text they have never seen before, chock-full with the various inflectional endings, grammatical forms and constructions of the language. «Purdue Exponent, May 15»
5
Vital steps for better critical illness cover
For instance, unlike abroad, diseases such as HIV or AIDS are not covered under critical illness (plans) in India. Also, inflectional diseases such ... «Livemint, May 15»
6
Literary discourse: Morpheme and its relevance to sentence …
Morphemes can also be classified as INFLECTIONAL and DERIVATIONAL. To be continued. By Abubakar Mohammed Marzuq Azindoo, ... «GhanaWeb, Apr 15»
7
Publix Pushes For Sanctions In Racial Discrimination Suit
... promptly filed a motion to dismiss the complaint, arguing neither of her two claims — inflectional infliction of emotional distress and violations ... «Law360, Apr 15»
8
The exotic coconut: The 'super nut' (Part 2)
... ideal to substitute for the loss of fluids drained from the body due to inflectional diarrhea and deficiencies. Its content of balanced electrolytes ... «Arab News, Mar 15»
9
Lain, the Whom of the Verb World
I take it to be a straightforward empirical fact about Standard English that the irregular verbs lie2 and lay have the inflectional forms I gave in the ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar 15»
10
Game of Thrones' Dothraki: meet the man who invented a language
The result was a lightly inflectional, head-initial language, which Peterson says is not too dissimilar from Russian; though its vocabulary is ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»

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