Inflected language

In an inflected language, words change form according to grammatical function. For instance the ending of a verb may indicate number, person, time, and mood, or the ending of a noun may indicate number, case, and usually something called grammatical gender.

Contrast isolating languages, which present the same information with word order and helper words more often than highly inflected languages do; however, distinguishing helper words from prefixes or suffixes in some languages (such as Japanese) can bring difficulty.

Examples of inflected languages include Latin, Greek and Russian.

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