conjugation vs inflection

inflection vs conjugation

conjugation and inflection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
conjugation	Yes	No	No	No
inflection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, inflection is a hypernym of conjugation; that is, inflection is a word with a broader meaning than conjugation:

conjugation: the inflection of verbs
inflection: a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function

Other hypernyms of conjugation include inflexion.

conjugation (noun)	inflection (noun)
the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes	the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
the act of making or becoming a single unit	a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms	deviation from a straight or normal course
the complete set of inflected forms of a verb	a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
the inflection of verbs
the state of being joined together

Difference between conjugation and inflection

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