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Inflection of words according to number, gender, and/or case
In linguistics, declension (verb: to decline) is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence by way
Declension
Part of Latin grammar
Latin declension is the set of patterns in the Latin language for how nouns and certain other parts of speech (including pronouns and adjectives) change
Latin_declension
Inflection in the Russian language
In Russian grammar, the system of declension is elaborate and complex. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives, most numerals and other particles are
Russian_declension
Topics referred to by the same term
Greek declension may refer to: Declensions in Ancient Greek grammar Declensions in Modern Greek grammar This disambiguation page lists articles associated
Greek_declension
English language during the Middle Ages
n-stem nouns in Old English, but joined the weak declension in Middle English. Nouns of the strong declension are inherited from the other Old English noun
Middle_English
Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc. in German
German declension is the paradigm that German uses to define all the ways articles, adjectives and sometimes nouns can change their form to reflect their
German_declension
Romance language
Portuguese (endonym: português) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family. With approximately 267 million native speakers, it
Portuguese_language
Declensions in the Lithuanian language
Lithuanian has a declension system which is similar to declension systems in ancient Indo-European languages such as Sanskrit, Latin and Ancient Greek
Lithuanian_declension
Declensions in the Latvian language
language, nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals are inflected in six declensions. There are seven cases: nominative (nominatīvs) genitive (ģenitīvs) dative
Latvian_declension
Declension paradigm in Indo-European
The second declension is a category of nouns in Latin and Greek with similar case formation. In particular, these nouns are thematic, with an original
Second_declension
Indo-European language of the Italic branch
second-declension and third-declension. They are so-called because their forms are similar or identical to first- and second-declension and third-declension
Latin
Aspect of the Irish language
In Irish grammar, declension happens to nouns, the definite article, and the adjectives. Irish mostly has five noun declensions, each with four cases
Irish_declension
Extinct Italic language of central Italy
The Umbrian third declension, like the Latin third declension, merged forms from the Proto-Italic consonant stem and i-stem declensions. In Proto-Italic
Umbrian_language
Part of speech in the Slovene language
This page describes the declension of nouns, adjectives and pronouns in Slovene. For information on Slovene grammar in general, see Slovene grammar. This
Slovene_declension
Declensions in the Gothic language
a declension. There are five grammatical cases in Gothic with a few traces of an old sixth instrumental case.[citation needed] A complete declension consists
Gothic_declension
Aspect of Czech grammar
Czech declension is a complex system of grammatically determined modifications of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals in Czech, one of the Slavic
Czech_declension
forms that a noun will take for each case and number is determined by the declension that it follows. The five cases of Ancient Greek each have different functions
Ancient_Greek_nouns
nouns only have singular and plural forms. Many remnants of former case declensions remain in the Dutch language, but few of them are productive. One exception
Archaic_Dutch_declension
Extinct Italic language of the ancient Falisci
evidence for the Faliscan third declension nominative singular indicates that, like Latin, Faliscan third declension words may have been marked by the
Faliscan_language
Grammar of the Latin language
shows the declension of puella "girl" (1st declension), dominus "lord, master" (2nd declension masculine), and bellum "war" (2nd declension neuter): 1st
Latin_grammar
Gallo-Romance dialect continuum
following declensions: Class I is derived from the Latin first declension. Class Ia mostly comes from Latin feminine nouns in the third declension. Class
Old_French
The declension of nouns in Latin that are borrowed from Greek varies significantly between different types of nouns, though certain patterns are common
Declension of Greek nouns in Latin
Declension_of_Greek_nouns_in_Latin
Language
the same word pattern is called a declension. There are five grammatical cases in Old High German. A complete declension consists of five grammatical cases
Old_High_German_declension
characterised by a fairly regular system of inflection (conjugation and declension) as well as word formation. Certain regular or common alternations apply
Polish_morphology
Declensions in Hindi and Urdu
case declension paradigms for nouns are shown below. Some masculine words ending in -ā (like pitā and kartā) retain 'ā' throughout their declension, only
Hindustani_declension
Declension pattern of some Attic nouns
The Attic declension is a group of second-declension nouns and adjectives in the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek, all of whose endings have long vowels
Attic_declension
Ukrainian has seven grammatical cases and two numbers for its nominal declension and two aspects, three tenses, three moods, and two voices for its verbal
Ukrainian_grammar
Aspect of the language
present-preterite) and two categories of nouns (strong, weak). Conjugation and declension are carried out by a mix of inflection and two nonconcatenative morphological
Old_Norse_morphology
Process of word formation, by alteration to express grammatical categories
whereas the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc. can be called declension. An inflection expresses grammatical categories with affixation (such
Inflection
Latin language in the period before 70 BC
Classical Latin textbooks the declensions are named from the letter ending the stem or First, Second, etc. to Fifth. A declension may be illustrated by a paradigm
Old_Latin
Declension paradigm in Indo-European
The first declension is a category of declension that consists of mostly feminine nouns in Ancient Greek and Latin with the defining feature of a long
First_declension
Grammar of the Silesian language
consonant are masculine inanimate. Declensions are generally divided into hard and soft declensions. Soft declensions are used when the stem of the noun
Silesian_grammar
Masovian dialect of Polish
Rubach identifies a hard-stem feminine declension, a vocalic soft-stem declension, and a consonantal soft-stem declension as well as some irregular paradigms
Kurpie_dialect
Grammatical case for noun addressed
exception of first-declension masculine nouns (ending in -ας or -ης), second-declension non-neuter nouns (ending in -ος) and third-declension non-neuter nouns
Vocative_case
Overview of how Japanese verbs conjugate
Japanese conjugation, like the conjugation of verbs of many other languages, allows verbs to be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical
Japanese_conjugation
Grammatical features of Old English
inflections, traditionally called the "strong declension" and the "weak declension". Together, both declensions contain many different inflections, though
Old_English_grammar
Ancient form of the Telugu language
Old Telugu Declension Case maganḏu ('man'/'son') kēy(i) ('hand') koṭṭaṁbuḷ ('hamlets') Accusative maganin kētin koṭṭaṁbuḷan Instrumental maganicētan maganitōḻan
Old_Telugu
Aspect of Latin grammar
the gender, declension (first, second, etc.) and the root's ending. In general the diminutive of nouns of the first or second declension which end in
Latin_diminutive
German articles are used similarly to the English articles, a and the. However, they are declined differently according to the number, gender and case
German_articles
Aspect of Sanskrit grammar
that preserves all the declensional types found in Proto-Indo-European, including a few residual heteroclitic r/n-stems. Declension of a noun in Sanskrit
Sanskrit_nominals
Linguistic reconstruction
declension instead of their own strong declension. The weak declension was identical to the an-stem and ōn-stem declensions of nouns. Comparatives and ordinals
Proto-Germanic_grammar
Declension paradigm in Indo-European
The third declension is a category of nouns in Latin and Greek with broadly similar case formation—diverse stems, but similar endings. Sanskrit also has
Third_declension
Extinct language of southern Italy
Oscan nouns, like in Latin, are divided into multiple declension patterns. The first declension in Oscan has three primary differences from Latin. The
Oscan_language
Country in Southeastern Europe
form of a suffix, and the almost total disappearance of the ancient declensions, for which the use of prepositions has been substituted, distinguish
Bulgaria
Indigenous language of South America
Aymara (Aymara pronunciation: [ajˈmaɾa] ; also Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a
Aymara_language
Declined according to case, state, gender and number
(masculine or feminine): an inherent characteristic of nouns, but part of the declension of adjectives Number (singular, dual or plural) Nouns are normally given
Arabic_nouns_and_adjectives
Sound change affecting Greek vowel length
with the first-declension pseudo-thematic vowel ā. Nouns in a small subclass of the second declension (known as the "Attic declension") lengthen the o
Quantitative_metathesis
Slavic dialect in Poland
The Chwalim dialect (Polish: gwara chwalimska; Silesian: chwalimskŏ gŏdka) was a Lechitic dialect spoken up to the first half of the 20th century in Chwalim
Chwalim_dialect
Declensions in the Colognian language
The Colognian declension system describes how the Colognian language alters words to reflect their roles in Colognian sentences, such as subject, direct
Colognian_declension
Distinctive facial appearance associated with a medical condition
specific medical condition. The term comes from Latin for "face". As a fifth declension noun, facies can be both singular and plural. Examples include: Hippocratic
Facies_(medical)
Categorization of nouns and modifiers by function
identifiable declension classes, or groups of nouns with a similar pattern of case inflection or declension. Sanskrit has six declension classes, whereas
Grammatical_case
Ometo dialect continuum spoken in Ethiopia
always U-declension, while those having the TVs-a and -e are distributed between the two declensions, although almost all are S-declension. Example;
Gamo-Gofa-Dawro_language
Grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb
telic, while the partitive is not. Modern English almost entirely lacks declension in its nouns; pronouns, however, have an understood case usage, as in
Accusative_case
Indian language
Bagri (IPA: [baːɡɽiː]) is an Indo-Aryan language of Rajasthani languages group that takes its name from the Bagar tract region of Northwestern India in
Bagri_language
Grammar of the Russian language
accusative case appears between the nominative and genitive cases. Nominal declension involves six main cases – nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental
Russian_grammar
patḗr, ὦ πάτερ ô páter 'o father' Exception 3: All 1st declension nouns, and all 3rd declension neuter nouns ending in -ος -os, have a genitive plural
Ancient_Greek_accent
Grammatical features of Esperanto
Esperanto is the most widely used constructed language intended for international communication; it was designed with highly regular grammatical rules
Esperanto_grammar
Kipchak Turkic language
back vowel, with front variant can be seen at #Phonology section. The declension of possessive suffixes is even more irregular, with the dative suffix
Tatar_language
Grammar of the Hittite language
Hittite language has a highly conservative verbal system and rich nominal declension. The language is attested in cuneiform, and is the earliest attested Indo-European
Hittite_grammar
Grammar of the Classical Sanskrit language
grammar of the Sanskrit language has a complex verbal system, rich nominal declension, and extensive use of compound nouns. It was studied and codified by Sanskrit
Sanskrit_grammar
Grammatical rules of the Lithuanian language
this declensional pattern. The third declension is very similar to the fifth declension. Duktė 'daughter' is the only word of the fifth declension, not
Lithuanian_grammar
Gender-neutral grammatical forms in Polish
Dukaj (such as dukatives). Dukaisms are based on novel conjugation and declension. Dukaj himself referred to them as "postgender grammar". The term dukaisms
Dukaism
Grammar of the German language
The grammar of the German language is quite similar to that of the other Germanic languages. Although some features of German grammar, such as the formation
German_grammar
Ancient Greek dialect group
With regard to declension, the stem is the part of the declined word to which case endings are suffixed. In the alpha or first declension feminines, the
Attic_Greek
West Slavic language
woman). Nouns of different genders follow different declension patterns. Examples of declension patterns for noun phrases of various genders follow:
Czech_language
West Slavic language of eastern Germany
tausend “thousand”) are used. Declension of the numeral “one”: Declension of the numerals “two,” “three,” “four”: Declension of personal pronouns of the
Lower_Sorbian_language
grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an example of it, and
List_of_grammatical_cases
Grammar of the Swedish language
nouns into five declensions based on their plural indefinite endings: -or, -ar, -(e)r, -n, and no ending. Nouns of the first declension are all of the
Swedish_grammar
Swedish death metal band
Desolation (2002) Decadence – Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos (2004) World Declension (2005) Redeeming Filth (2014) Doomsday Rituals (2016) Death in Pieces
Centinex
Indo-European language
began to disappear, when endings of one were transferred to the other declension and vice versa, as part of a larger process in which the distinction between
Old_Dutch
Either of two extreme points in a celestial object's orbit
An apsis (from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís) 'arch, vault' (third declension); pl. apsides /ˈæpsɪˌdiːz/ AP-sih-deez) is one of the two extreme points in
Apsis
List of erroneous Latin words
Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article: Appendix Probi The Appendix Probi (Probus's Appendix) is the conventional name for a series
Appendix_Probi
Grammar of the Ancient Greek language
θεοί (hoi theoí) "the gods" – 2nd declension αἱ γυναῖκες (hai gunaîkes) "the women" – 3rd declension 1st declension nouns tend to be feminine (but there
Ancient_Greek_grammar
Kipchak Turkic language
Declension of pronouns Interrogative pronouns Personal pronouns Case who what Singular Plural I you (thou) he, she, it we you they Nominative кем kem нимә
Bashkir_language
East Slavic language
this type. The declension for all feminine nouns in the instrumental case is the same (-ов) across all declension types. This declension paradigm is used
Rusyn_language
Overview of how nouns are used in German
cases, nominative, accusative, dative and genitive, the main forms of declension are: I: Feminine nouns usually have the same form in all four cases. a)
German_nouns
List of terms used in biology
listed here. 1st-and-2nd-declension adjectives end in -us (masculine), -a (feminine) and -um (neuter), whereas 3rd-declension adjectives ending in -is
List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
List_of_Latin_and_Greek_words_commonly_used_in_systematic_names
Aspect of the language
article concerns the morphology of the Albanian language, including the declension of nouns and adjectives, and the conjugation of verbs. It refers to the
Albanian_morphology
Names of numbers in Latin
follow him' Ordinal numerals all decline like normal first- and second-declension adjectives. When declining two-word ordinals (thirteenth onwards), both
Latin_numerals
Grammar of the Modern Greek language
adjectives and verbs are each divided into several inflectional classes (declension classes and conjugation classes), which have different sets of endings
Modern_Greek_grammar
Northeast Caucasian language
languages and are used for Turkic loanwords. There are two types of declensions.[citation needed] Lezgian has three native suffixes for nominal derivation:
Lezgian_language
Words in Kurukh that substitute for a noun or noun phrase
Pronominal declension Case Suffix 1P. SG eṅ(g)- 1P. PL (Excl) em(m)- 1P. PL (Incl) nam(m)- 2P. SG niṅ(g)- 2P. PL nim(m)- Nominative ∅ ēn ēm nām nīn nīm
Pronouns_in_Kurukh
Romance language
Parisian standard. Grammatically, during the period of Middle French, noun declensions were lost and there began to be standardized rules. Robert Estienne published
French_language
Central Semitic language
languages; it preserved the complete Proto-Semitic three grammatical cases and declension (ʾiʿrāb), and it was used in the reconstruction of Proto-Semitic since
Arabic
System of suffixes of Classical Arabic
ʾIʿrāb (إِعْرَاب, IPA: [ʔiʕraːb]) is an Arabic term for the declension system of nominal, adjectival, or verbal suffixes of Classical Arabic to mark grammatical
ʾIʿrab
Common ancestor of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan. 1Note that the (mostly inanimate) nouns of the first declension only marked plurality in the absolutive case. The protolanguage is thought
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan language
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan_language
Naturalistic constructed language
Nouns can be subdivided into four declensions. They are similar to the declension system in Latin: The first declension are all words on -a, the vast majority
Venedic_language
English archaic 2nd person singular pronoun
[better source needed] The English personal pronouns have standardized declension according to the following table:[citation needed] The genitives my, mine
Thou
Grammatical rules and syntax in the Nepali language
then […], and greatly reduced in syntactic scope. […] In Nepali, the [declensional] ending is a neutral -o, changeable to -ī with Personal Feminines in
Nepali_grammar
Gaulish speakers. Gaulish texts from La Graufesenque contain the first declension nominative plural ending -as instead of the standard ending -ae, such
Dialects_of_Latin
From a morphological perspective, adjectives in the Circassian languages (Adyghe and Kabardian) share many characteristics with nouns. A key feature of
Adjectives_in_Circassian
Grammatical case indicating a location
first and second declension, it was identical to the genitive singular form. In archaic times, the locative singular of third declension nouns was still
Locative_case
Form of the Greek language found in Homer
goddess"), and the genitive plural of first-declension nouns and the genitive singular of masculine first-declension nouns. For example θεᾱ́ων ("of goddesses")
Homeric_Greek
Grammatical rules of the Belarusian language
(Belarusian: назоўнікі, BGN/PCGN: nazowniki) there are several types of declension: i-stem – feminine (feminine nouns ending in a hard consonant, soft consonant
Belarusian_grammar
Mongolic language of Northwest China
The Santa language, also known as Dongxiang (simplified Chinese: 东乡语; traditional Chinese: 東鄉語; pinyin: Dōngxiāngyǔ), is a Mongolic language spoken by
Santa_language
Proto-Slavic, Eastern Proto-Slavic, and Southern Proto-Slavic. Within declension, in North Slavic, the nominative-accusative feminine plural ending of
History of the Polish language
History_of_the_Polish_language
Extinct Indo-European language of Iberia
Only two declension types are securely attested; they are the first declension (ā-stems) and second declension (o-stems). The third declension (consonant-
Lusitanian_language
Masculine given name
IESVS, where it stood for many centuries. The Latin name has an irregular declension, with a genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative of Jesu, accusative of
Jesus_(name)
Northeast Caucasian language native to Russia
Chechen (Нохчийн, Noxçiyn, [ˈnɔxt͡ʃĩː]) is a Northeast Caucasian language, spoken primarily by the Chechen people, native to the Russian republic of Chechnya
Chechen_language
Ancient Indo-European language
The Carian language is an extinct language of the Luwic subgroup of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken by the Carians. The
Carian_language
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n.
The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
n.
Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
n.
Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.
a.
Belonging to declension.
n.
The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
n.
An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.
n.
The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
n.
The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.
n.
One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.
n.
A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
a.
Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.
a.
Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
n.
Rehearsing a word as declined.
n.
Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
n.
Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
n.
Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.
n.
Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
n.
A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension.
n.
A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem.
superl.
Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.
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