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inflection meaning in Sanskrit

व्यय vyaya

/ɪnˈflɛkʃən/

inflection in Sanskrit: व्यय (vyaya). In English, inflection means the linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.

Sanskrit words for inflection

inflection, declension
व्यय vyaya

English meaning of inflection

  1. noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
  2. noun Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given word class.
  3. noun An affix representing a given variation.
  4. noun Any specific morphological form of a particular word, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.

Full definition of inflection

inflection in a sentence

  • In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.
  • The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages.
  • English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.

Synonyms of inflection

inflection in other languages

Questions about inflection in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of inflection in Sanskrit?
Inflection in Sanskrit is व्यय (vyaya).
inflection इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Inflection: व्यय (vyaya).
What does inflection mean in English?
Inflection means the linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.

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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “inflection”: व्यय. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: inflection (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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