flectional
flectional — 形容詞
- flectionalpositive
- more flectionalcomparative
- most flectionalsuperlative
1. relating to the way words change their form to show grammatical meaning, such as
屈折的
詞形依語法需求而變化的特性
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.
Ingrid 注意到英文中的屈折詞尾 -ed 總是標記過去式。
flectional ending — suffix that marks grammatical meaning
Mateo found that Russian packs more flectional information into a single verb than English does.
Mateo 發現俄語在單一動詞中承載的屈折資訊比英語更多。
pack + flectional information + into [word]
Adaeze asked her class to underline every flectional suffix in the short paragraph.
Adaeze 要班上學生將短文中的每個屈折後綴都畫上底線。
Turkish and Finnish use flectional markers that stack one after another on the same word.
土耳其語和芬蘭語使用的屈折標記可以在同一個詞上層層疊加。
Caleb used a colour-coded chart to group flectional patterns by what they signal.
Caleb 用一張彩色編碼圖表，依照屈折模式所表達的內容來分類。
- 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.