inflected language
noun[C]
uk/ɪnˌflek.tɪd ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us/ɪnˌflek.tɪd ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/alanguagethatchangestheformorendingof some words when the way in which they are used insentenceschanges:
有屈折变化的语言Latin,Polish, andFinnishare allhighlyinflectedlanguages.拉丁语、波兰语及芬兰语都是有很多屈折变化的语言。
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- flowery
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism