declensiondɪˈklɛn ʃən
declension (n)
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English Definitions:
declension (noun)
the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening (noun)
process of changing to an inferior state
descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope (noun)
a downward slope or bend
declension (noun)
a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
"the first declension in Latin"
declension (Noun)
A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
declension (Noun)
The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
Declension
In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate number, case, and gender. A declension is also a group of nouns that follow a particular pattern of inflection. Declension occurs in many of the world's languages, and features very prominently in many European languages. Old English was a highly inflected language, as befits its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but its declensions greatly simplified as it evolved into Modern English.
Declension
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 of some inflection. Declensions may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and articles to indicate number (e.g. singular, dual, plural), case (e.g. nominative case, accusative case, genitive case, dative case), gender (e.g. masculine, neuter, feminine), and a number of other grammatical categories. Meanwhile, the inflectional change of verbs is called conjugation. Declension occurs in many of the world's languages. It is an important aspect of language families like Quechuan (i.e., languages native to the Andes), Indo-European (e.g. German, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slavic, Sanskrit, Latin, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Classical Armenian and Modern Armenian and Kurdish), Bantu (e.g. Zulu, Kikuyu), Semitic (e.g. Modern Standard Arabic), Finno-Ugric (e.g. Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian), and Turkic (e.g. Turkish). Old English was an inflectional language, but largely abandoned inflectional changes as it evolved into Modern English. Though traditionally classified as synthetic, Modern English has moved towards an analytic language.
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