Gruppenflexion
English edit
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Tibetan རྒྱལ་པོའམ་བླ་མ (rgyal po'am bla ma, “the king or the lama”) + ས (sa, “ergative case marker”) → རྒྱལ་པོའམ་བླ་མས (rgyal po'am bla mas, “by the king or the lama.”) |
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Gruppenflexion (“group inflection”).
Noun edit
Gruppenflexion (uncountable)
- (grammar, rare) The practice, for example in Tibetan and Tocharian, of inflecting noun phrases with case by only inflecting the last word of the noun phrase with said case.