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State morphological inflection precisely and explain why it matters in 2-3 sentences.

**Morphological inflection** is the systematic modification of a word's form (through affixes, internal changes, or other processes) to express grammatical categories like tense, number, person, case, or gender, without changing the word's core meaning or syntactic category. It matters because inflection is essential for grammatical agreement and sentence structure in most languages—for example, verb forms must match their subjects, and adjectives must agree with nouns. Understanding inflection is also critical for language learning, computational linguistics (like machine translation), and diagnosing language disorders where inflectional processing may be impaired.