flectional
flectional — adjective
- flectionalpositive
- more flectionalcomparative
- most flectionalsuperlative
1. relating to the way words change their form to show grammatical meaning, such as
relating to the way words change their form to show grammatical meaning, such as tense, number, person, or case
Ingrid noticed that the flectional ending -ed always marks the past tense in English.
flectional ending — suffix that marks grammatical meaning
Mateo found that Russian packs more flectional information into a single verb than English does.
pack + flectional information + into [word]
Adaeze asked her class to underline every flectional suffix in the short paragraph.
Turkish and Finnish use flectional markers that stack one after another on the same word.
Caleb used a colour-coded chart to group flectional patterns by what they signal.
- inflectional
the standard spelling, vastly more common in modern academic and everyday use
- inflective
a rare synonym found mainly in older linguistics texts; not used in general English
- derivational
refers to word-building that creates new dictionary entries (e.g. teach → teacher), not grammatical variants of the same word
- isolating
describes languages that use separate words rather than endings to show grammatical roles, such as Vietnamese or Mandarin
文法句型
flectional + noun
用法筆記
This is a less common spelling variant of 'inflectional.' Most textbooks and academic writers use 'inflectional' instead. The two spellings have the same meaning and are interchangeable.