infleksioonilised

Infleksioonilised refers to forms or words that encode grammatical information through inflection rather than by forming a new word. In morphology, inflection involves systematic changes to a word’s form to signal features such as case, number, gender, person, tense, mood, aspect, voice, or definiteness. Infleksioonilised changes can occur in nouns, pronouns, adjectives, numerals, and verbs, allowing a single lexical item to express multiple grammatical roles depending on its ending or internal modification.

In languages with inflectional systems, inflectional forms are essential for syntax, signaling relationships between words and helping to determine who or what is being referred to, as well as when actions occur. Nouns may change for case and number, verbs may conjugate for person, number, tense, and mood, and adjectives may agree with the noun in number and case. Inflectional morphology is typically distinguished from derivational morphology, which creates new words or changes part of speech rather than signaling grammatical function.

Estonian is an example of a highly inflectional language, featuring an extensive noun case system and broad verb conjugation, with many grammatical categories conveyed through inflection.

See also: Inflection, Morphology, Declension, Conjugation.