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# inflected

«inflected» in Mova's school dictionary: **Changed in form to show grammar, such as tense, number or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (inflected); verb, past form of «inflect» (inflect, inflects, inflected, inflecting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (grammar) Changed in form to show grammar, such as tense, number or person: «walked» is an inflected form of «walk». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/#m1)

2) (grammar) Describing a language that changes word endings a lot, like Latin, German or Ukrainian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/#m2)

3) (voice) Changed in pitch, as a voice that goes up at the end of a question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In English and grammar lessons, inflected forms are the different forms of one word: cat/cats, run/ran/running, big/bigger/biggest. Learning French or Ukrainian, pupils see heavily inflected words with many endings. Phrases: inflected form, highly inflected language.

### examples

- «Ran» is an inflected form of «run». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/#x1)
- Latin is a highly inflected language with many word endings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/#x2)
- «Cats» is the inflected plural of «cat». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/#x3)
- English is less inflected than German. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/#x4)
- Her voice inflected upward at the end of the question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/#x5)
- In a dictionary, inflected forms are listed with the main word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/#x6)

### note

Verb «inflect»; noun «inflection» (UK also «inflexion»). Inflection keeps it the same word in a new form; derivation makes a new word (happy → happiness).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inflected» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.