Greek is a highly inflected language. When I tell my first-year students this, they usually think I mean that Greek is an infected language. Inflection refers to the change of the form of the word to indicate a change in some component of meaning. English is also an inflected language, but it is not highly, or even consistently, inflected. For example, if I am describing several animals known as a “dog,” I change the form of the word by adding an s to indicate the plural form