noun
declension
dih-KLEN-shun/dɪˈklenʃn/
A pattern of changes in word forms that show grammatical case.
The textbook lists each noun's declension in a separate table.
Etymology
Latin declinatio meant “bending aside” and also grammatical inflection. The grammatical image is a word turning away from its nominative form into other case forms, yielding the set of forms called a declension.
In context
this adjective should use same thing with the female form in the middle that a is the nominative singular ending that begins the female chart for adjectives in the first declension
More examples
- Many Latin nouns follow the first declension.
- German adjectives have different declensions depending on the words before them.
- We practice the declension of Russian nouns by changing sentences.
Forms
declension · declensions
decline verb — Change a word's form to show case.
Similar words
- inflection
- Covers changes for tense and number as well as case.
- paradigm
- A model set of forms, not limited to case changes.