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Pluralization

The act of pluralizing.

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Inflection 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Inflexion 76% connected

Inflection.

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Pluralize 74% connected

To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Pluralize 74% connected

To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.

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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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Ending noun · 77% connection

the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have ‘-ism’ as an ending"

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Free form noun · 77% connection

a morpheme that can occur alone

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Pluralizing p. pr. & vb. n. · 72% connection

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