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Sometimes applied also to such inflectional prefixes as the ge- of the German perfect participle.—adjs.

The inflectional or formal elements of language are usually derived from words expressing accessory ideas.

Reval Esthonian, which preserves more carefully the full inflectional forms and pays greater attention to the laws of euphony, is recognized as the literary language.

As already hinted, the English language, in the wide sense, presents three main stages of development—Old, Middle and Modern—distinguished by their inflectional characteristics.

It is clear that the idioms of the second group were once isolating, and that inflectional idioms have passed through both the former states.