Every sentence he spoke ended in an incredibly annoying upward inflection.
Source: tatoeba (6841066)
Inflection
//ɪnˈflɛkʃən//
Synonyms for "inflection" (106 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (53)
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3 entriesRelated terms
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5 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
111 translations across 44 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- eptim noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Armenian
2 entries- թեքում noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- թեքում noun (turning away from a straight course)
Bashkir
1 entries- килеш менән үҙгәреү noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Bulgarian
3 entries- модулация noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- отклонение noun (turning away from a straight course)
- склоне́ние noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Catalan
2 entries- flexió noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- inflexió noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 曲折變化 /曲折变化 noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- 詞形變化 /词形变化 noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Classical Greek
3 entries- κίνημα noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- κίνησις noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- κλίσις noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Czech
2 entries- flexe noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- ohýbání noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Danish
2 entries- afvigelse noun (turning away from a straight course)
- modulation noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
Dutch
2 entries- bocht noun (turning away from a straight course)
- flexie noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Esperanto
1 entries- fleksio noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Finnish
4 entries- inflektio noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- käänne noun (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave)
- suunnanmuutos noun (turning away from a straight course)
- taivutus noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
French
2 entries- flexion noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- inflexion noun (turning away from a straight course)
Georgian
3 entries- მიმოხრა noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- მოღუნვა noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- ფლექსია noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
German
4 entries- Betonung noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- Beugung noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- Biegung noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- Flexion noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Greek
3 entries- κάμψη noun (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave)
- κλίση noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- λύγισμα noun (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave)
Hindi
1 entries- विभक्ति noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Hungarian
3 entries- inflexió noun (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave)
- rag noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- ragozás noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Icelandic
2 entries- beyging noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- raddblær noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
Indonesian
1 entries- infleksi noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Italian
4 entries- cadenza noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- calata noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- desinenza noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- flessione noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Japanese
1 entries- 語形変化 noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Korean
2 entries- 굴절 noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- 어형변화 noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Latin
2 entries- flexio noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- flexura noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Latvian
1 entries- locīšana noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Malagasy
1 entries- fihilan-teny noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Manx
3 entries- aachassey noun (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave)
- lhoobey noun (turning away from a straight course)
- yn-filley noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Mongolian
2 entries- хувирал noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- ялгаллахуй noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- bøying noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- bøyning noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bøying noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Old English
2 entries- ġebīeġednes noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- ġebīeġednes noun (turning away from a straight course)
Persian
1 entries- تصریف noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Polish
3 entries- fleksja noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- modulacja noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- odmiana noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Portuguese
4 entries- desvio noun (turning away from a straight course)
- entonação noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- flexão noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- inflexão noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
Romanian
3 entries- flexiune noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- inflexiune noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- inflexiune noun (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave)
Russian
4 entries- измене́ние фо́рмы сло́ва noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- модуля́ция noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- оконча́ние noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- отклоне́ние noun (turning away from a straight course)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- fleksija noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- infleksija noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- infleksija noun (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave)
- otklon noun (turning away from a straight course)
Slovak
1 entries- ohýbanie noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Spanish
3 entries- flexión noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- inflexión noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- inflexión noun (turning away from a straight course)
Swedish
2 entries- böjning noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- inflexionspunkt noun (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave)
Tagalog
1 entries- sabaylo noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Tajik
1 entries- оҳанг noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Ukrainian
4 entries- зміна інтонації noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- модуляція noun (change in pitch or tone of voice)
- перегин noun (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave)
- словозмі́на noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Welsh
2 entries- ffurfdro noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- ffurfdroad noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
It is a question of taste whether TAME, tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality, should be expressed by inflection or particles.
Source: tatoeba (10571844)
Felgar said it’s hard to predict when airlines’ use of biofuels will take off, but that developments over the past 7 to 8 years would indicate an “inflection point is coming up.”
Source: tatoeba (10871440)
In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.