In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate number (at least singular and plural), case (nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.), 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 befitting its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but its declensions greatly simplified as it evolved into Modern English.

Noun

Declension

Wikipedia declension (plural declensions)

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

   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.

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

Hypernyms

• inflection (inflexion)

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