Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the back of your hand.

不管是哪一种，你都了解每一个屈折处，就像熟悉自己手背上的纹路一样。

As inflectons disappeared, word order became more important and, by the time of Chaucer, the modern English subject-verb-object word order had gradually become the norm, and as had the use of prepositions instead of verb inflections.

）。 随着屈折子的消失， 词序得更加重， 到乔叟时代， 现代英语的主谓宾词序逐渐成为规范， 使用介词代替动词屈折也是如此。

When Jacob says, " Really? " he uses a certain way of speaking, what we would call an " inflection, " to indicate that he doesn't believe the police.

当雅各布说“真的吗？ ” 时，他使用了一种我们称为“屈折”的说话方式来表他不相信警察。

There are inflections called " cases" on the end of nouns -- (Laughter) that tell you who does what to whom in a sentence.

名词末尾有被称为“格”的屈折——（笑声）它们告诉你句子中谁对谁做了什么。

The e had once been pronounced and represented the remnant of an old inflectional ending that had been reduced to a generic uh sound.

那个e曾经被发音过，代表了旧的屈折词尾的残留部分，这个词尾已经被简为一个通用的“uh”音。

In grammar, Old English was much more highly inflected than Middle English because there were case endings for nouns, more person and number endings of words and a more complicated pronoun systems as well as various endings for adjectives.

在语法上，古英语比中古英语的屈折大得多，因为名词有大小写结尾，单词有更多的人称和数字结尾，代词系统更复杂，形容词也有各种各样的结尾。

Many languages all around the world are heavily inflected, encoding lots of information in verbs.

世界各地的许多语言都有很大的屈折，用动词编码大量信息。

Inflectional affixes and derivational affixes are two types of morphological processes used to create new words in a language.

屈折词缀和派生词缀是用于在语言中创建新词的两种形态过程。

The patterns for inflection can be applied in most cases, with very few irregular forms as exceptions.

屈折的模式可以应用于大多数情况，只有极少数的不规则形式作为例外。

The affixes attached in this process are therefore inflectional affixes or inflectional morphemes.

因此，这一过程中附加的词缀是屈折词缀或屈折语素。

In summary, inflectional affixes serve grammatical functions and do not change the core meaning or part of speech of a word, while derivational affixes create new words or change their meaning and part of speech.

总，屈折词缀服务于语法功能， 不会改单词的核心含义或词性，而派生词缀则创建新词或改其含义和词性。

For example, if the subject in English is a singular third person pronoun or noun, and the tense is present, then an inflectional affix -s is attached if a verbal lexeme is like.

例如，如果英语中的主语是单数第三人称代词或名词，并且时态是现在时，那么如果动词词位是like，就会附加屈折词缀-s。

Productivity: Derivational affixes may have more limited productivity compared to inflectional affixes, and their application can vary across different words and contexts.

生产力：与屈折词缀相比， 派生词缀的生产力可能更有限，并且它们的应用可能因不同的单词和上下文而异。

Productivity: Inflectional affixes are highly productive and can be applied to a wide range of words within a particular grammatical category.

生产力：屈折词缀的生产力很高，可以应用于特定语法类别内的各种单词。

A simple way to understand stem is to take it as the word form minus its inflectional affixes.

理解词干的一个简单方法是将其视为去掉屈折词缀的词形。

Inflectional affixes are highly productive and appear after derivational affixes, whereas derivational affixes may have more limited productivity and appear before inflectional affixes.

屈折词缀的生产力很高， 并且出现在派生词缀后，而派生词缀的生产力可能更有限， 并且出现在屈折词缀前。

Obviously, inflection does not change the meaning of the base lexeme, nor does it change its category.

显然，屈折不改基础词位的意义，也不改其词类。

Inflectional affixes typically appear after derivational affixes in a word structure.

顺序：在单词结构中，屈折词缀通常出现在派生词缀后。

Thirdly, inflection never changes the category of the base lexeme, while derivation often involves the shifting of the category.

第三，屈折从不改基础词位的词类，而派生通常涉及词类的转换。

Derivational affixes typically appear before inflectional affixes in a word structure.

顺序：在单词结构中，派生词缀通常出现在屈折词缀前。