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Inflect meaning
To cause to curve inwards. | To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing. | To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
Example sentences (11)
The disc four live versions of “’Til I Fell in Love with You” and “Standing in the Doorway” inflect the songs with roadhouse blues, soul and gospel.
Her voice has been autotuned extensively during the verses, perhaps to inflect words in a particular style.
Bambara does not inflect for gender.
Chinese does not inflect verbs for tense like English and other European languages.
Coptic verbs can therefore be said to inflect for the person, number and gender of the subject.
However, the majority of words in all Indo-European languages inflect without ablaut, as cat, cats and walk, walked do in English.
Latin and the Romance languages inflect verbs for tense–aspect–mood (abbreviated 'TAM'), and they agree in person and number (but not in gender, as for example in Polish ) with the subject.
Nouns Nouns inflect for case and number, but not for gender.
Numerals inflect either as nouns or pronouns, with 1-4 showing gender agreement as well.
Other Japanese reading aids Okurigana main Okurigana are kana that appear inline at normal size following kanji stems, typically to complete and to inflect adjectives and verbs.
This is rather similar to the English verbal noun -ING form, and therefore as a noun, this form can inflect just like any other noun.