English is an inflectional language, which means it uses endings to indicate grammatical function.
英语是一种屈折语,这意味着它使用词尾来表示语法功能。
In contrast to analytic languages, inflectional languages change the form of words to show different meanings.
与分析语相比,屈折语通过改变单词形式来表示不同的含义。