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Episode 8: Indo-European Grammar (Where have all the inflexions gone?)

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Indo European Grammar - Inflections

An inflection is basically a modification of a word to indicate something specific about the word in a sentence. Latin has lots of them, and as i said, modern german still has lots ofThey are one of the most important features of indo european grammar. But when we look at certain non ento european languages, like chinese, for example, they don't have any inflections at all.

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