Example sentences for: inflected

How can you use “inflected” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pepys does not use they and its inflected forms as an indefinite singular pronoun nearly as commonly as we do in such constructions as “Everyone on their feet!”

  • Words that are or become nouns in Greek are assigned articles indicating gender, and some words are also inflected like Greek nouns; but the majority, become uninflected neuters, which, anyway, have fewer inflections than feminines or masculines, so that a change in the article is often the only indication of case and syntax.

  • Many languages are inflected, which is also a form of redundancy, since English gets by nicely with little inflection.

  • In an inflected language, endings affixed to the words for dog and ball indicate which object is direct and which is indirect.

  • In all this talk about entries, it must be remembered that the (accepted) practice in counting dictionary entries in the U.S. (and becoming the standard in the U.K. as well) is to count not only headwords, or main entries, but inflected forms, variants, changes in part of speech, run-on words (like cunningly and cunningness under cunning ), and list words (like reaccuse and reacquire ), which need no definition.


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