0 a language that changes the form or ending of some words when the way in which they are used in sentences changes:
E.g. nouns have a construct state, called smikhut, to denote the relationship of belonging to: this is the converse of the genitive case of more inflected languages.
Just as with pronouns and nouns, many inflected languages also make distinctions between cases in their adjectives and (for languages that have them) articles.
Bilingual electronic dictionaries and monolingual dictionaries of inflected languages often include an interactive verb conjugator, and are capable of word stemming and lemmatization.
Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders, seven noun cases, four verb conjugations, six tenses, three persons, three moods, two voices, two aspects, and two numbers.
Obviously, in these highly inflected languages, acquiring the underlying gender system is a crucial prerequisite for learning morphology.
French is a moderately inflected language.
In more traditional terminology, it is an inflected language, although the typologists are apt to say inflecting.
Kannada is a highly inflected language with three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter or common) and two numbers (singular and plural).
