inflectionaalimorfeemien
Inflectionaalimorfeemien, in linguistic terminology, are bound morphemes that attach to a word to express its grammatical information without creating a new lexical item. They modify features such as person, number, tense, mood, aspect, case, or gender and therefore contribute to the word’s inflection. Inflectional morphemes are distinguished from derivational morphemes because they do not typically change the word’s core meaning or its part of speech; they mainly signal grammatical relationships within the sentence.
Most inflectional morphemes are affixes, with suffixes being the most common in many languages. Some languages
Examples across languages illustrate the concept. English uses suffixal inflection like -s for plural or -ed
In linguistic analysis, inflectional morphemes are contrasted with derivational morphemes, which alter meaning or word class.