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How Is Spanish an Inflected Language?
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In both English and Spanish, the most common way to inflect a word is by adding an ending. It is also common in both languages to use suffixes to change to change its part of speech. Both languages have irregular verbs and occasionally change the stem (the base word) rather than add a suffix. Englis
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  • In both English and Spanish, the most common way to inflect a word is by adding an ending.
  • It is also common in both languages to use suffixes to change to change its part of speech.
  • Both languages have irregular verbs and occasionally change the stem (the base word) rather than add a suffix.
  • English has limited use of inflection of verbs, known as conjugation, primarily using "-d" or "-ed" for regular verbs for the past tense and adding "-ing" to form the gerund.
  • inflects verbs extensively to indicate tense, mood, and person.

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