decline 7
verbdomain: v speaking
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
Examples
- 1.in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives
Hypernym
inflect 1
verb
change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language
EnglishDerivationally related form
declension 4
noun
a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
declension 1
noun
the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
