ragozási

Ragozási is a term used in linguistics to describe the system of inflection or conjugation by which words change form to express grammatical categories. It encompasses how languages mark features such as tense, mood, voice, person, number, case, gender, definiteness, and other relational or syntactic information through word endings or internal alterations.

In Hungarian, ragozás is central to the grammar and applies to multiple parts of speech. Verbs are conjugated to reflect person and number (first, second, third person; singular or plural), as well as tense, mood, and definiteness. Nouns and adjectives also undergo inflection to mark case and number, and adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and definiteness. The system is highly regular in its use of suffixes, though some stems undergo vowel harmony or minor internal changes during conjugation or declension.

Morphological paradigms organize forms into sets, or paradigms, for each verb or noun. A learner or a natural language processing system typically studies these paradigms to predict all possible forms from a given lemma. Ragozási is thus a key component of linguistic description, language teaching, dictionaries, and computational tools such as morphological analyzers and generators.

Ragozási differs across languages in both scope and complexity. Some languages have extensive inflection with many cases and moods, while others rely more on auxiliary words. See also: inflection, conjugation, declension, morphology, Hungarian grammar.