Russian is synthetic, (word building and inflection/cases?) Synthetic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

English is rather less synthetic, more analytic:Isolating language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Caution must be used in reading these articles, I believe. A language that occasionally shows some synthetic characteristics, does not mean language is very synthetic. This applies to Romance languages for examples, that seem to be more analytic and less synthetic than is implied.