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inflection meaning in Sinhala

වරනැගීම

/ɪnˈflɛkʃən/

inflection in Sinhala: වරනැගීම. 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.

Sinhala words for inflection

වරනැගීම

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 Sinhala

What is the meaning of inflection in Sinhala?
Inflection in Sinhala is වරනැගීම.
inflection යන්නෙහි සිංහල තේරුම කුමක්ද?
Inflection: වරනැගීම.
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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