Inflectional languages:
| ü use affixes which often fused together several grammatical categories (such as NUMBER, CASE & GENDER) into a single morpheme
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ü often undergo major phonological alterations when combined with roots (идти-иду-шла-шёл)
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ü words are often polysyllabic
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ü each part of speech has its own word-building affixes, one part of speech could be distinguished from another by its own word-changing paradigm
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ü words should agree their forms to make up a sentence
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ü word order is relatively free
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ü there are complex sentences with different kinds of subordinate clauses
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