inflection vs conjugation

conjugation vs inflection

inflection and conjugation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, conjugation is a hyponym of inflection; that is, conjugation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than inflection:

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

Other hyponyms of inflection include declension, paradigm, pluralisation, pluralization.

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

Difference between inflection and conjugation

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