Declension (nonfiction)

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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.)
  • 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 befits its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but its declensions greatly simplified as it evolved into Modern English.

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