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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External links
- Declension @ Wikipedia