Inflection

:This article is about inflection in linguistics. For a mathematical meaning, see Inflection point.

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Inflection or inflexion refers to a modification or marking of a word (or more precisely lexeme) so that it reflects grammatical (i.e. relational) information, such as grammatical gender, tense, person, etc. The concept of a "word" independent of the different inflections is called a lexeme, and the form of a word that is considered to not have any inflections is called a lemma.

Related Topics:
Marking - Lexeme - Grammatical gender - Tense - Person - Lemma

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