What is Inflection?
{{Grammatical categories}} '''Inflection''' (or inflexion) is a piece added to a word to express variations in [[grammar]]. The added bits are called [[Affix|affixes]]. They are [[Prefix|prefixes]] (in front), [[Suffix|suffixes]] (at the end) and infixes (in the middle). They are added to the ''root'', the part of the word which does not change. Some languages such as [[Latin]] or [[Sanskrit]] have complex inflections that they apply to most of their words. Others, such as [[English language|English]], are less inflected. Some, such as [[Mandarin Chinese]], use no inflections. Examples in English: * ''Write, writes, wrote, written'' are tenses of the verb ''to write''. Inflecting a verb is called [[conjugation]]. * ''Sing, sang, sung'' * ''Dog, dogs'' is a noun inflected for number. Inflecting a noun is called [[declension]]. * ''Foot, feet'' * ''Mouse, mice'' * ''Child, children'' * ''Dog's, dogs''' are nouns in the [[genitive case]], which means that the word after are owned by the dog or dogs. * ''I, me,'' and ''myself'' are all '''cases''', or different word forms, of the first-person [[pronoun]]. *my can be used as adjective and mine can be used as pronoun. Hence can be considered as use of inflection apart from example of derivation {{stub}} [[Category:Grammar]]