ending

Definitions

1. A termination or conclusion.
2. The last part of something.
3. The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").

Equivalents

Examples

“The book has a happy ending.”

“The film has an unexpected ending.”

“Modern romance, like⟳ Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know⟳ it, as we have⟳ seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have⟳ loved.”

“Spanish verb forms have⟳ different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.”

“Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show⟳ that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.”

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