ending

A termination or conclusion.

The last part of something.

The book has a happy ending.

The film has an unexpected ending.

The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").

Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.

Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.