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Inflexion

Inflection.

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Conjugation 76% connected

the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Declension 76% connected

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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Paradigm 76% connected

An example; a model; a pattern.

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Pluralization 76% connected

The act of pluralizing.

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Inflect 74% connected

To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Inflect 74% connected

To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

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Inflection 92% connected

The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.

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Base noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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Morphophoneme noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme

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Radical noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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Root noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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Root word noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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Stem noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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Theme noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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Morpheme noun · 78% connection

minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

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Compound noun · 78% connection

a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…

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Compound word noun · 78% connection

a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…

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Allomorph noun · 77% connection

a variant phonological representation of a morpheme; "the final sounds of ‘bets’ and ‘beds’ and ‘horses’ and ‘oxen’ are allomorphs of…

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Bound form noun · 77% connection

a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; e.g. an ‘-s’ at the end of plural nouns

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Bound morpheme noun · 77% connection

a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; e.g. an ‘-s’ at the end of plural nouns

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Classifier noun · 77% connection

a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted i…

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Clitic noun · 77% connection

a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted.; "Most lan…

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Acute verb · 78% connection

To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.

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Analogy noun · 78% connection

Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronun…

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Case noun · 78% connection

nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence

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Comparison noun · 78% connection

The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, lit…

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Declinable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.

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Deflection noun · 78% connection

A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.

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Etymology noun · 78% connection

That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.

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Flection noun · 78% connection

The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.

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Flectional adjective · 78% connection

Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.

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Flexion noun · 78% connection

Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.

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Heteroclite noun · 78% connection

A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in wor…

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Homoioptoton noun · 78% connection

A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.

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Inflected adjective · 78% connection

Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective.

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Inflectional adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection.

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Inflective adjective · 78% connection

Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air.

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Inflexure noun · 78% connection

An inflection; a bend or fold.

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Level adjective · 78% connection

Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.

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Monotony noun · 78% connection

constancy of tone or pitch or inflection

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