Accordingly, besides noun declension patterns, there also existed a greater variety of verb conjugation patterns than in Modern English.
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Declension
//dɪˈklɛn.ʃən//
Synonyms for "declension" (168 found)
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131 translations across 65 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- lakim noun (act)
- lakim noun (way of categorizing)
Ancient Greek
4 entries- κλίσις noun (act)
- κλίσις noun (way of categorizing)
- συζυγία noun (act)
- συζυγία noun (way of categorizing)
Arabic
4 entries- إِعْرَاب noun (way of categorizing)
- تَصْرِيف noun (way of categorizing)
- تَصْرِيف الْأَسْمَاء noun (way of categorizing)
- صَرْف noun (way of categorizing)
Armenian
1 entries- հոլովում noun (way of categorizing)
Asturian
2 entries- declinación noun (act)
- declinación noun (way of categorizing)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- hallandırma noun (way of categorizing)
- hallanma noun (way of categorizing)
Belarusian
4 entries- склане́нне noun (act)
- склане́нне noun (way of categorizing)
- склане́ньне noun (act)
- склане́ньне noun (way of categorizing)
Bengali
1 entries- বিভক্তি noun (way of categorizing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- скланя́не noun (act)
- склоне́ние noun (way of categorizing)
Catalan
2 entries- declinació noun (act)
- declinació noun (way of categorizing)
Chechen
1 entries- легар noun (way of categorizing)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 變格 /变格 noun (way of categorizing)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 變格 /变格 noun (way of categorizing)
Czech
4 entries- deklinace noun (act)
- deklinace noun (way of categorizing)
- skloňování noun (act)
- skloňování noun (way of categorizing)
Danish
1 entries- deklination noun (way of categorizing)
Dutch
3 entries- declinatie noun (act)
- verbuiging noun (act)
- verbuiging noun (way of categorizing)
Esperanto
2 entries- deklinacio noun (act)
- deklinacio noun (way of categorizing)
Estonian
1 entries- käänamine noun (way of categorizing)
Faroese
1 entries- orðbending noun (way of categorizing)
Finnish
2 entries- taivutus noun (act)
- taivutusluokka noun (way of categorizing)
French
2 entries- déclinaison noun (act)
- déclinaison noun (way of categorizing)
Galician
1 entries- declinación noun (way of categorizing)
Georgian
2 entries- ბრუნება noun (act)
- ბრუნება noun (way of categorizing)
German
2 entries- Deklination noun (act)
- Deklination noun (way of categorizing)
Greek
2 entries- κλίση noun (act)
- κλίση noun (way of categorizing)
Hebrew
2 entries- הַטָּיָה noun (act)
- נְטִיָּה noun (way of categorizing)
Hindi
1 entries- विभक्ति noun (way of categorizing)
Hungarian
3 entries- névszóragozás noun (act)
- névszóragozás noun (way of categorizing)
- névszóragozási típus noun (way of categorizing)
Icelandic
2 entries- beyging falla noun (way of categorizing)
- fallbeyging noun (way of categorizing)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- تَصْریف noun (way of categorizing)
- صَرْف noun (way of categorizing)
Irish
1 entries- díochlaonadh noun (way of categorizing)
Italian
1 entries- declinazione noun (way of categorizing)
Japanese
4 entries- ディクレンション noun (way of categorizing)
- 変化 noun (way of categorizing)
- 曲用 noun (way of categorizing)
- 格変化 noun (way of categorizing)
Kazakh
3 entries- септелу noun (way of categorizing)
- септеу noun (way of categorizing)
- септік noun (way of categorizing)
Korean
4 entries- 격변화 noun (way of categorizing)
- 곡용 noun (way of categorizing)
- 변화 noun (way of categorizing)
- 어형변화 noun (way of categorizing)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- жөндөлүш noun (way of categorizing)
Latin
2 entries- declinatio noun (act)
- declinatio noun (way of categorizing)
Latvian
1 entries- deklinācija noun (way of categorizing)
Lithuanian
2 entries- deklinacija noun (way of categorizing)
- linksniuotė noun (way of categorizing)
Macedonian
1 entries- деклинација noun (way of categorizing)
Malagasy
1 entries- fihilana ara-tsokajinteny noun (way of categorizing)
Middle English
2 entries- declinacioun noun (way of categorizing)
- declinson noun (way of categorizing)
Mongolian
1 entries- нэрийн ялгал noun (way of categorizing)
Norman
2 entries- dêclyinnaîson noun (act)
- dêclyinnaîson noun (way of categorizing)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- bøying noun (way of categorizing)
- bøyning noun (way of categorizing)
- deklinasjon noun (way of categorizing)
Old English
1 entries- declīnung noun (way of categorizing)
Polish
4 entries- deklinacja noun (act)
- deklinacja noun (way of categorizing)
- odmiana przez przypadki noun (act)
- odmiana przez przypadki noun (way of categorizing)
Portuguese
2 entries- declinação noun (act)
- declinação noun (way of categorizing)
Romanian
4 entries- declinare noun (act)
- declinare noun (way of categorizing)
- declinație noun (act)
- declinație noun (way of categorizing)
Russian
2 entries- склоне́ние noun (act)
- склоне́ние noun (way of categorizing)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- deklinácija noun (way of categorizing)
- sklònidba noun (way of categorizing)
- sklȁnjānje noun (way of categorizing)
- деклина́ција noun (way of categorizing)
Slovak
2 entries- skloňovanie noun (act)
- skloňovanie noun (way of categorizing)
Slovene
2 entries- sklanjanje noun (act)
- sklanjatev noun (way of categorizing)
Spanish
2 entries- declinación noun (act)
- declinación noun (way of categorizing)
Swedish
2 entries- böjning noun (way of categorizing)
- deklination noun (way of categorizing)
Tagalog
1 entries- saukol noun (way of categorizing)
Tajik
2 entries- тасриф noun (way of categorizing)
- хам карданӣ noun (way of categorizing)
Thai
3 entries- การผันคำนาม noun (way of categorizing)
- การผันคำวิเศษณ์ noun (way of categorizing)
- การผันคำสรรพนาม noun (way of categorizing)
Turkish
2 entries- gerileme noun (act)
- çekim noun (way of categorizing)
Ukrainian
2 entries- відмі́на noun (act)
- відмі́на noun (way of categorizing)
Urdu
1 entries- اِمالَہ noun (way of categorizing)
Uzbek
1 entries- turlanish noun (way of categorizing)
Vietnamese
1 entries- biến cách noun (way of categorizing)
Yiddish
1 entries- דעקלינאַציע noun (way of categorizing)
Zazaki
1 entries- antış (diq) noun (way of categorizing)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Some attention should be paid to word order, gender and declension.
Source: tatoeba (1873731)
The Esperanto word ‘okazo’ originally meant both ‘occasion’ and ‘case’, as the Russian ‘случай’ does, while ‘kazo’ only meant ‘case in declension’. Owing to Western influence, ‘kazo’ started to mean ‘case in court’, then ‘case in general’.
Source: tatoeba (3161073)
In Esperanto there is only a single declension. One can learn it in less than 15 minutes.
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