Meaning & use
inflectional ending
A suffix added to a word to show grammatical information such as tense, number, or comparison.
See it in a sentence
The '-ed' in 'walked' is an inflectional ending that marks the past tense.
Adding the inflectional ending '-s' to 'cat' shows that there is more than one.
A note on using this word
Inflectional endings change a word's grammar, not its meaning, unlike derivational suffixes such as '-ness.'
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