Example sentences for: inflected

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

  • The OED on Compact Disc has a facility for finding blank tile substitutions, but it does not include all possible inflected forms.

  • In the wild--that is, in the more freewheeling and inflected realm of spoken language-- groovy thrives in a largely ironic state; the use of the word requires a context of wavelength synchrony between speaker and listener.

  • ' So the English word Soviet corresponds to both the Russian noun sovét or much more often to the Russian adjective sovetskii in their many inflected forms.

  • a word (as the noun book), hyphened or open compound (as the verb book-match or the noun book review), word element (as the affix pro-), abbreviation (as agt), verbalized symbol (as Na), or term (as man in the street) entered alphabetically in a dictionary for the purpose of definition or identification or expressly included as an inflected form (as the noun mice or the verb saw) or as a derived form (as the noun godlessness or the adverb globally) or related phrase (as one for the book) run on at its base word and usu.

  • Sometimes these are given by the dictionary; sometimes it is the best guess I can come up with in spite of the inconsistencies, the regionalisms, and the often considerable changes in the inflected word stems of Gaelic which create huge pitfalls for the novice translator.


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