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’.