Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A falling off, decay or descent.

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

  3. (countable, uncountable)The product of that act; a list of declined forms.

    a page full of declensions

    Deklination

    склоне́ниеsklonénije

    відмі́наvidmína

  4. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Deklination

    склоне́ниеsklonénije

    відмі́наvidmína

    the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

Examples

12 sentences
  1. That's the wrong declension.

    Це неправильна відміна.

    ruЭто неправильное склонение.

    deDas ist die falsche Deklination.

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  2. That is the wrong declension.

    Це неправильна відміна.

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  3. Swedish nouns are generally divided into five declensions.

    ruСуществительные в шведском обычно делятся на пять склонений.

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  4. Maltese has a complex system of conjugation and declension.

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  5. Some attention should be paid to word order, gender and declension.

    ruСледует обратить немного внимания на порядок слов, их род и склонение.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
By meaning 1
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Origin

From late Middle English declinson, from Middle French declinaison (Modern French: déclina

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

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Forms

plural: declensions
Singulardeclension
Pluraldeclensions

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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