indeclinable

See also: indéclinable

English

Etymology

From French indéclinable, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French, from Latin indeclinabilis. See in- not, and decline.

Adjective

indeclinable (not comparable)

1. That one cannot decline; unavoidable.
   • 1994, Helen R. Myers, To Wed at Christmas (page 101)

     He'd planned to work a double shift Friday night, but Gladys Silverman's indeclinable invitation threw a hefty wrench into David's plans.

2. (grammar, of a word) Not grammatically declinable.

Synonyms

• undeclinable

Hypernyms

• uninflectable
• invariable

Translations

not declinable

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} несклоняем (bg) (nesklonjaem)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不变格的 (bù biàn gé de)

• Czech: nesklonný
• Danish: ubøjelig
• Dutch: onverbuigbaar (nl)
• Finnish: taipumaton (fi)
• French: indéclinable (fr)
• German: undeklinierbar (de), indeklinabel (de)
• Greek: άκλιτος (el) (áklitos)

  Ancient: ἄκλιτος (áklitos)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: ragozhatatlan
• Icelandic: óbeygjanlegur (is)
• Latin: indeclinabilis
• Norman: îndêclyinnabl'ye
• Polish: nieodmienny (pl) m
• Portuguese: invariável (pt), indeclinável (pt)
• Russian: несклоня́емый (ru) (nesklonjájemyj)

Noun

indeclinable (plural indeclinables)

1. (grammar) A word that is not grammatically inflected.

Further reading

• “indeclinable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Spanish

Adjective

indeclinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural indeclinables)

1. (grammar) indeclinable
2. unavoidable