misinflect

Definitions

To inflect incorrectly.

Examples

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

“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).”

“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.”

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

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