inflected

Definition

To bend something inward or—in grammar's case—to twist a word's form like a linguistic contortionist to express tense, number, gender, or mood. English speakers often ignore this, but Romance languages make it their entire personality. Whether you're curving a physical object or conjugating a French verb, inflection is just fancy bending.

Example Usage

Latin students must master inflected nouns and adjectives to decline them properly.

Source: Merriam-Webster, standard linguistic terminology

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