The ending is not expressed by sounds. Ending (flexion)

Ending or inflection(lat. flixio- bending) is a significant part of the word that changes and is formative. The ending serves to connect words in a sentence or phrase and indicates the relationship between words, expressing grammatical meaning.

The grammatical meaning of the endings of different parts of speech.

1. Noun . Noun endings

   river - rivers - rivers

2. Adjective . Endings of adjectives indicate their number and case and gender:

   beautiful - beautiful - beautiful

3. Numeral . Endings of nouns indicate their case and number:

   second - second - second

4. Verb . Verb endings present and future tenses indicate person and number:

   read - read

   The endings of past tense verbs indicate their number, person and gender:

   Looked - looked - looked - looked

5. Pronoun. Pronoun endings indicate first of all the case, then the number and gender, if any:

   he is his
   one's - one's - one's - one's

6. Participle . Participle endings indicate number, gender and case:

   read - read - read

The end is exclusively formative morpheme, which does not give the word any additional meanings.

Endings are materially expressed and zero.

Zero ending- this is the ending of modified words, which is not expressed by sounds during pronunciation and by letters in writing, but at the same time conveys a certain grammatical meaning. The null ending can be indicative of a particular gender or case, for example:

• nominative and accusative nouns f.r. 3 declensions in singular: daughter, oven, mother, rye;
• Nominative nouns m.r. 2 singular declensions (for inanimate - nominative and accusative): friend, chair, reed;
• Genitive nouns of different genders plural: countries, soldiers, windows;
• Short forms unit m.r. adjectives and participles: cheerful, read, good.
• Nominative possessive adjectives m.r. unit: brothers, mother, fox;
• Imperative mood verbs in singular: look, learn, watch;
• indicative and subjunctive mood singular verbs m.r.: wrote - would write; looked - would look; walked - would have walked.

There are unchangeable words and word forms that do not have endings and a system of grammatical properties. These words and forms include:

Indeclinable nouns, often of foreign origin: taxi, coat

Possessive pronouns that indicate belonging to a third person: her, him, them

Indeclinable adjectives: burgundy, khaki

Adverbs

Such words are related to other words by means of semantic relations, but null ending not indicated in writing.