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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