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(grammar, uncountable) Change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories. / (grammar, countable) An instance of such change.

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inflection

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Source Word

inflection

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɪnˈflɛkʃən/

Noun

uncountable countable

Japanese Meaning

語形変化：単語の形が文法的なカテゴリ（時制、数、格、性など）を表現するために変化する現象。 / 活用：語形変化の具体的な形（例としての変化形そのもの）を指す場合もある。

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The linguistics professor explained how inflection marks tense, number, and case in different languages.

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言語学の教授は、語形変化が異なる言語で時制・数・格をどのように示すかを説明した。

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Sense（1）

(grammar, uncountable) Change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories.

In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin

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Sense（2）

(grammar, countable) An instance of such change.

Sense（3）

(grammar) An affix representing such an instance.

English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.

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Sense（4）

(grammar, countable) Any form produced by such an instance of a change, such as the principal parts for any given stem: any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.