declension

Examples

• All

• I was memorizing Latin declensions while milking cows at five in the morning, winter mornings.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The declension is again gender-balanced, being evenly split between forms that resemble "he" and "she."

  Blog text (11)

• In order to get around memorizing declension tables, he teaches one case at a time.

  Academic text (1994)

• I have recently submitted my paper on the declension... of German verbs to the Philological Society.

  The Professor and the Madman (2019)

• For your sake, I hope that all of you have become little experts at conjugation, declension and irregular verbs.

  Evilspeak (1981)

• Many teachers specialize (even at the university level) in mnemonic tricks to help students keep the conjugation and declension tables straight.

  Academic text (1994)

• Dikshita went on to compose a series of eight songs about the deity, using one of the eight Sanskritic declensions of the noun "guha" in each song.

  Academic text (2001)

• In Latin, the declension of nouns indicates their case endings based on their function in the sentence.

• She was excited to learn the declension patterns needed for her Latin class.

• Understanding the declension of adjectives is crucial for proper grammatical agreement.

Synonyms

I

inflection

vsdeclension

• Specialized

3 6.2

A change in a word's form to show tense, number, or case

refers to the patterned system in noun and adjective forms rather than single changes

I

inflectional morphology

vsdeclension

• Specialized

9.3

The way word endings change to show tense, number, or case

focuses specifically on patterns in nouns pronouns and adjectives

A

accidence

vsdeclension

• Specialized

9.9

Part of grammar about how words change for tense, number or case

is the specific system just for noun and adjective forms

Compounds

M

masculine declension

• Specialized

9.6

Forms of words like nouns and adjectives used for masculine gender in a language

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology