flexionadas

Flexionadas is a term used in linguistics to describe inflected word forms—variants that encode grammatical information such as tense, number, gender, case, mood, voice, or aspect. The notion is often expressed as formas flexionadas in languages with rich morphology. Inflected forms are contrasted with lemmas or base forms, which are the dictionary entries for a word; a single lemma may have many flexionadas, forming its inflectional paradigm. In Portuguese and Spanish, the phrase formas flexionadas is common, and flexionadas may be used as a standalone adjective to describe those forms.

In verbs, flexionadas carry information about person and number (hablo, hablas, habla in Spanish), tense or aspect (hablaré, hablaba), mood, and voice. Nouns and adjectives vary for gender and number (niño/niños, grande/grandes). Some languages add case, determiner agreement, or other features. The specific set of flexionadas depends on the language’s morphology: fusional systems yield compact inflectional changes, while agglutinative systems assemble multiple affixes per form.

In computational linguistics and lexicography, flexionadas are often analyzed and annotated, enabling tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, lemmatization, and morphological parsing. Digital dictionaries typically list lemmas alongside common flexionadas and the rules that generate them.

See also: morphological inflection, inflected form, lemma, conjugation, declension.