inflection in Tagalog
sabaylo
/ɪnˈflɛkʃən/
inflection in Tagalog: sabaylo. 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.
Tagalog words for inflection
- variation in the word form reflecting grammatical features
- sabaylo
English meaning of inflection
- noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- noun Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given word class.
- noun An affix representing a given variation.
- 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.
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 Tagalog
- What is the meaning of inflection in Tagalog?
- Inflection in Tagalog is sabaylo.
- Ano ang inflection sa Tagalog?
- Inflection: sabaylo.
- 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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