活用形

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1)  inflected form

Usage notes

 * Different analyses of Japanese grammar have different notions of what constitutes an inflected form. Many morphemes viewed in western grammar to be inflectional suffixes are viewed as in traditional Japanese grammar (also known as ). For example, while western grammar considers  to be an inflection of, traditional Japanese grammar consider the  part to be a  of  and the  part to be an auxiliary verb.
 * Not to be confused with or, which means “inflectional types”.