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Inflection This article is about linguistics. For a mathematical meaning, see Stationary point .
Inflection or inflexion is a change of word form according to grammatical function, which occurs in inflected languages .
Inflection is differentiated depending on the class:
There are two basic types of inflection:
Linguistically, the former is strictly called agglutination , and the latter is the true sense of the word inflection . However, in the popular imagination, agglutination is discarded and the umbrella term inflection used.
Words often do not appear in a fundamental form (the word root) except in dictionaries and grammars.
A schema of all inflections for a word is sometimes called a paradigm .
Various major languages, including English , German , Russian , Spanish , French , and Hindi - all Indo-European languages - are inflected to a greater or lesser extent.
The most obvious inflections in English occur in strong verbs, e.g. I am, you are and to take, I took ; and nouns, one man, all men ; foot, feet . Weak inflections, however, are more common, such as I love, I loved, he loves ; John, John's car .
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