declension

Inflection of nouns, pronouns, numerals, adjectives, and articles according to number, gender, and/or case

EntityQ188078

Subclass of: inflection
, inflection class

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In linguistics, declension is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence by way of an inflection. Declension may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and determiners. It serves to indicate number, case, gender, and a number of other grammatical categories. Inflectional change of verbs is called conjugation.

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Different from: Declination

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