inflectional
adjective language specialized uk/ɪnˈflek.ʃən.əl/ us/ɪnˈflek.ʃən.əl/
（有）屈折变化的;屈折形式的
related to inflection (= a change in or addition to the form of a word that shows a change in the way it is used)
"Drives", "driving", "drove", and "driven" are all inflectional forms of "drive". “drives”、“driving”、“drove”和"driven"都是“ drive”的屈折变化形式。
inflectional suffixes/endings 屈折变化后缀/词尾
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- Some words with inflectional suffixes, eg -ed, -ing, require consonant doubling, eg running, or deletion, eg coming.
- She tested children's awareness of inflectional morphology in her famous wug/wugs experiment.
- When an inflectional ending is added, as in Gorbacheva (the genitive case), the letter is voiced, like v.
- Some languages, for example English, carry obligatory inflectional markers of tense, plurality, and modality.