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# inflected

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

«inflected» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (grammar) Changed in form to show grammar, such as tense, number or person: «walked» is an inflected form of «walk». [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «inflected» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflected/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«inflected» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/inflected.html) on Mova free.