What is the variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc called?
inflection — (Gram.) The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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