Flexioni

Flexioni refers to the phenomenon of inflection in linguistics. Inflection is the modification of a word's form to express grammatical information such as tense, mood, person, number, gender, and case. This process typically involves adding suffixes or prefixes to a word's root, or sometimes internal changes to the word itself, a process known as stem modification.

For example, in English, the verb "walk" can be inflected to "walked" to indicate past tense, or "walking" to indicate a present participle. The noun "cat" can be inflected to "cats" to indicate plurality. These inflected forms are not new words but variations of the same lexical item, serving specific grammatical functions within a sentence.

The presence and type of inflection vary significantly across languages. Highly inflected languages, such as Latin or Russian, utilize extensive inflectional systems to convey a great deal of grammatical information. Conversely, languages like Chinese are considered analytic or isolating, with minimal inflection and relying more on word order and separate grammatical particles to express meaning. The study of flexioni is a fundamental aspect of morphology, the branch of linguistics concerned with the structure of words.