Inflected

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Latin is a highly inflected language.

In that language, adjectives and nouns are inflected for gender.

In Latin, the five classes of words that can be inflected are nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs and their participles.

I prefer a language in which nouns are not inflected for number.

Yiddish borrows Hebrew verbs by combining their present participles with auxiliary verbs such as zayn or vern. The auxiliary verb is inflected as usual, while the Hebrew element is treated as an infinitive or attached preposition.

Technically speaking, Esperanto combines the characteristics of an inflected language with those of an agglutinative one.

In Latin, the numbers "unus" and "duus" are inflected, but every other number word is invariable.

Numerals in Esperanto aren't inflected.

The Latin verb "laudare" is inflected according to the first conjugation.

This verb gets inflected in a rather special manner.

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(An inflected language is one in which words change form when their function changes.)

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