Every sentence he spoke ended in an incredibly annoying upward inflection.
Source: tatoeba (6841066)
Inflection
/ɪnˈflɛkʃən/
Synonyms for "inflection" (137 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (28)
Strong matches (41)
cuttingdeclensiondeflectionderivationdictiondifference of formdoglegelbowellencliticenunciationflectionflexflexureforkformativefree formfurcationgeanticlinegeosyncline
Show 8 more words
hairpin turnhookic analysisimmediate constituent analysisinfixinfixationintonationintonation pattern
Noun(11 words)
declinationexpress verballyform changeform setformsgrammatical endinginflected forminflected formsinflectinginflexionitalian tono
Adjective(2 words)
dutch vormgrammatical variant
Related words (68)
Noun(17 words)
kinkingliltsmodulationmorphological changemorphological featuremorphological formsmorphology changeold french formepluralizationpluralsprosodyspanish formasvizzeraverb conjugationverb formword endingword forms
Adjective(3 words)
latin formaportuguese verbsspoken signals
Determiner(1 words)
second person singular
Verb(1 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
10 entriesdeliverydeparturedeviationdifferencedivergencegrammargrammatical relationmanner of speakingmorphologyspeech
More specific
6 entriescase formcase formsplural formplural formstense formtense forms
Collocations
6 entriescase inflectiongrammatical inflectioninflection rulesplural inflectionpresent tense inflectionverb inflection
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
61 translations across 43 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- eptim noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Armenian
1 entries- թեքում noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Bashkir
1 entries- килеш менән үҙгәреү noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Bulgarian
1 entries- склоне́ние noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Catalan
1 entries- flexió noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
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)
Dutch
1 entries- 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
1 entries- taivutus noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
French
1 entries- flexion noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
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
3 entries- 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
1 entries- κλίση noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Hindi
1 entries- विभक्ति noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Hungarian
2 entries- 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
1 entries- beyging noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Indonesian
1 entries- infleksi noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Italian
2 entries- 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
1 entries- yn-filley noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Mongolian
1 entries- хувирал noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
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
1 entries- ġebīeġednes noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Persian
1 entries- تصریف noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Polish
2 entries- fleksja noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- odmiana noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Portuguese
1 entries- flexão noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Romanian
1 entries- flexiune noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Russian
4 entries- измене́ние фо́рмы сло́ва noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- оконча́ние noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- словоизмене́ние noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
- фле́ксия noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- fleksija noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Slovak
1 entries- ohýbanie noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Spanish
1 entries- flexión noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
Swedish
1 entries- böjning noun (variation in the form of a word that reflects grammatical features)
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
1 entries- 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
Showing 4 of 8 available sentences.