Word Finder - declension

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A falling off, decay or descent.

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(grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.

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(grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

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In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension. Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.

Aryan declension naturally disappeared with the loss of final syllables.

Under the new covenant, sensual and carnal worship entering the gospel temple is often an evidence of spiritual declension.

The decades preceding the "Great Awakening" of 1740-1743 were a time of religious declension.

The book of Judges with its " monotonous tempo - religious declension, oppression, repentance, peace," to which Wellhausen 4 refers as its ever-recurring cycle, makes us familiar with these alternating phases of action and reaction.

The chief work of Choeroboscus, which we have in its complete form, is the commentary on the canons of Theodosius on Declension and Conjugation.

This often happens with nouns of the third declension.

The differences in declension between Old Persian and ad are unimportant.

Note also that the neuter noun, nomen, behaves according to the same rules as you met with bellum in the second declension.

You know that poem of Longfellow's, sir, that sounds exactly like the first declension.

There is a dual, as well as a plural form in the declension of verbs, nouns, pronouns and adjectives.

At once he welcomed the new "power" with an unquestioning evidence which could be shaken by neither the remonstrances or desertion of his dearest friends, the recantation of some of the principal agents of the "gifts," his own declension into a comparatively subordinate position, the meagre and barren results of the manifestations, nor their general rejection both by the church and the world.

There had indeed been previous immigrations, but the passage from the desert into the midst of Palestinian culture led to the adoption of the old semi-heathenism of the land, a declension, and a descent from the relative simplicity of tribal life.

The large class of heterogeneous nouns which are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural constitute what is sometimes called the neuter declension.

Jnfiexion.There is no trace of declension either in Castilian or in Portuguese.

Polish Nouns helps Macintosh users to learn and practice declension of nouns.