inflect
verb (- [intransitive]
if a word inflects, its ending or spelling changes according to its grammatical function in a sentence; if a language inflects, it has words that do this 屈折变化;词尾变化 Verbs inflect for tense and person. 时态和人称的动词屈折变化。 Most languages of the world inflect. 世界上大多数语言都有屈折变化。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryInflect is used with these nouns as the subject:- verb
- noun
- verb
- [transitive, usually passive]
to change the form of a word according to its grammatical function 屈折变化;词尾变化 - be inflected (for something)
Arabic verbs are inflected for person, number and gender. 阿拉伯语动词有人称、数和性别的屈折变化。
- be inflected (for something)
Word Originlate Middle English (originally in a technical sense, ‘to bend’ or ‘deflect something’): from Latin inflectere, from in- ‘into’ + flectere ‘to bend’.