declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English declenson, from Middle French declinaison (Modern French: déclinaison), from Latin dēclīnātiō. Doublet of declination.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈklɛn.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

declension (countable and uncountable, plural declensions)

1. A falling off, decay or descent.
2. (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
3. (grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.

   a page full of declensions

4. (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.

Synonyms

• declination

Hypernyms

• flection, flexion, inflection, inflexion, accidence

Hyponyms

• strong declension
• weak declension
• mixed declension

Coordinate terms

• conjugation

Derived terms

• declensional
• declense
• declensed

Translations

act

• Albanian: lakim (sq) m
• Asturian: declinación f
• Belarusian: склане́нне n (sklanjénnje)
• Bulgarian: скланя́не n (sklanjáne)
• Catalan: declinació (ca) f
• Czech: deklinace (cs) f, skloňování (cs) n
• Dutch: verbuigen (nl) n
• Esperanto: deklinacio (eo)
• Finnish: taivutus (fi)
• French: déclinaison (fr) f
• Georgian: ბრუნება (bruneba)
• German: Deklination (de) f
• Greek: κλίση (el) f (klísi)

  Ancient: κλίσις f (klísis), συζυγία f (suzugía)

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• Hebrew: הטיה (he) f (hat'aya)
• Hungarian: névszóragozás (hu)
• Latin: declinatio (la) f
• Mongolian: тийн ялгалын ай (tiin jalgalyn aj)
• Norman: dêclyinnaîson f
• Polish: deklinacja (pl) f, odmiana przez przypadki f
• Portuguese: declinação (pt) f
• Romanian: declinare (ro) f, declinație (ro) f
• Russian: склоне́ние (ru) n (sklonénije)
• Slovak: skloňovanie
• Slovene: sklanjanje n
• Spanish: declinación (es)
• Turkish: gerileme (tr)
• Ukrainian: відмі́на (uk) f (vidmína)

way of categorizing

• Albanian: lakim (sq) m
• Arabic: (usually of Arabic nouns) إِعْرَاب (ar) m (ʔiʕrāb), صَرْف (ar) m (ṣarf), (inflection of nouns) تَصْرِيف اَلْأَسْمَاء m (taṣrīf al-ʔasmāʔ), تَصْرِيف m (taṣrīf)
• Armenian: հոլովում (hy) (holovum)
• Asturian: declinación f
• Belarusian: склане́нне n (sklanjénnje)
• Bulgarian: склоне́ние n (sklonénie)
• Catalan: declinació (ca) f
• Chechen: легар (legar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變格／变格 (zh) (biàngé), 变格 (zh) (biàngé)

• Czech: deklinace (cs) f, skloňování (cs) n
• Danish: deklination c
• Dutch: verbuiging (nl) f
• Esperanto: deklinacio (eo)
• Estonian: käänamine
• Faroese: orðbending f
• Finnish: taivutusluokka (fi)
• French: déclinaison (fr) f
• Galician: declinación (gl) f
• Georgian: ბრუნება (bruneba)
• German: Deklination (de) f
• Greek: κλίση (el) f (klísi)

  Ancient: κλίσις f (klísis), συζυγία f (suzugía)

• Hebrew: נטייה (he) f (neti'a)
• Hungarian: névszóragozás (hu), névszóragozási típus
• Icelandic: fallbeyging (is) f, beyging falla f
• Italian: declinazione (it) f
• Japanese: 変化 (ja) (へんか, henka), ディクレンション (dikurenshon), 曲用 (きょくよう, kyokuyō), 格変化 (かくへんか, kakuhenka)
• Kazakh: септелу (septelu), септеу (septeu), септік (septık)
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• Korean: 어형변화 (eohyeongbyeonhwa), 곡용 (ko) (gogyong), 어형변화 (eohyeongbyeonhwa), 변화 (ko) (byeonhwa), 격변화 (gyeokbyeonhwa)
• Kyrgyz: жөндөлүш (ky) (jöndölüş)
• Latin: declinatio (la) f
• Latvian: deklinācija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: deklinacija f, linksniuotė f
• Macedonian: деклинација f (deklinacija)
• Malagasy: fihilana ara-tsokajinteny
• Mongolian: тийн ялгал (tiin jalgal)
• Norman: dêclyinnaîson f
• Norwegian: bøyning, bøying (no)

  Bokmål: deklinasjon m

• Old English: declīnung f
• Polish: deklinacja (pl) f, odmiana (przez przypadki) f
• Portuguese: declinação (pt) f
• Romanian: declinare (ro) f, declinație (ro) f
• Russian: склоне́ние (ru) n (sklonénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: деклинација f, склонидба f, склањање n (dated)

  Roman: deklinacija (sh) f, sklonidba (sh) f, sklanjanje (sh) n (dated)

• Slovak: skloňovanie n
• Slovene: sklanjatev (sl) f
• Spanish: declinación (es) f
• Swedish: deklination (sv), böjning (sv)
• Tagalog: saukol
• Tajik: хам карданӣ (tg) (xam kardani)
• Thai: การผันคำนาม,การผันคำสรรพนาม,การผันคำวิเศษณ์
• Turkish: çekim (tr)
• Ukrainian: відмі́на (uk) f (vidmína)
• Uzbek: turlanish (uz)
• Vietnamese: biến cách
• Yiddish: דעקלינאַציע f (deklinatsye)
• Zazaki: antış (diq) c

Anagrams

• indolences, insolenced, second line, second-line