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Declension
Meaning
Noun
●
A
falling off
,
decay
or descent.
●
In Grammar:
The
act
of
declining
a
word
; the
act
of
listing
the
inflections
of a
noun
,
pronoun
or
adjective
in order.
●
In Grammar:
The product of that
act
;
a list
of
declined
forms.
●
In Grammar:
A way of
categorizing
nouns
,
pronouns
, or
adjectives
according to
the
inflections
they receive.
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Origin
declension
English
declenson
Middle English (1100-1500)
declinaison
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
declinatio
Latin
declino
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
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Conjugation
Genitive
Nominative
Plurals
Nouns
Subjunctive
Dative
Preposition
Orthography
Consonant
Gerund
Prepositional Phrases
Auxiliary Verbs
Diacritical Marks
Word Order
Grammatical Gender
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Part Of Speech
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