Misinflect

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To inflect incorrectly.

    "Thus the student is taught from the very beginning to misinflect an important class of German nouns."

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"Thus the student is taught from the very beginning to misinflect an important class of German nouns."

Etymology

From mis- + inflect.

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