Misinflect

Quick meaning: Misinflect is a verb meaning To inflect incorrectly.

Meaning

To inflect incorrectly.

Example Sentences

Thus the student is taught from the very beginning to misinflect an important class of German nouns.

They managed, in repeating his name like the echoing mountains, to mispronounce or misinflect every syllable of it.

This is one reason why one inclines to quotation in discussing his writing . Any paraphrase that even slightly misinflects his descriptions runs the risk of near-total distortion.

In consulting them, the reader should bear in mind that the singers use a variety of hiatus bridges ( j, h, v, etc.; all italicized in text) and not seldom misinflect words (sometimes under the pressure of sound-patterns).

Word Forms

• misinflects
• misinflecting
• misinflected

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misinfer, misinsert, misaccentuate, misaccent, misconvert, misfigure.

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