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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. In linguistics, declension is the occurrence of inflection in nouns, pronouns and adjectives, indicating such features as number (typically singular vs. plural), case (subject, object, and so on), gender, and possession. Declension occurs in a great many of the world's languages, and features very prominently in many European languages, but is much less prominent in English. English nouns decline only to distinguish singular from plural (e.g., book vs. books); only very few English adjectives decline (the French loan-word blond(e) being a rare exception), and only a few English pronouns show vestiges of case-triggered declension (e.g., nominative case he, dative case or accusative case him, genitive case (possessive case) his). As detailed below, English was once a highly inflected language, as befitting its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but it became greatly simplified as it evolved. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License How do you decline a noun in Latin in the 1st declension? Q. How do you decline a noun in Latin in the 1st declension? Asked by Jazzy D - Tue Sep 30 12:43:24 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. puella girl as subject puella girl (when addressing her) puellam girl as object puellae of the girl puellae to or for the girl puella by/with/ from the girl Answered by Doethineb - Tue Sep 30 12:56:10 2008 Latin 2nd Declension Filius? Q. How would the second declension Latin word filius decline? I think it declines slightly differently to dominus, bellum and puer, so I would like to know how it declines. Asked by Recipi - Mon Jun 9 17:06:01 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. filius filii filio filium filio filii filiorum filiis filios filiis Sometimes "fili" is used for the genitive singular. Answered by d2 - Mon Jun 9 17:15:20 2008 Can someone give me some example Latin sentences?
Q. I'm really confused about Latin fourth and fifth declension nouns along with ablative absolutes. Can someone give me example sentences using both of those? Nothing fancy, just something someone would say to someone else. Basic sentences are perfect, I just need some examples to read. Asked by Angel Y - Sun Mar 22 16:28:39 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. Well you could maybe say "Hand fast, he grabs the bread" Hand fast is the absolute ablative phrase. You would probably translate the sentence as "Manu celer, panem capat." For a fifth declension like day you can say "With the day ahead, he plans the plans" with "with the day ahead being ablative phrase so "Cum die ante, consilia cogitat" Answered by |misz.exclusive| - Sun Mar 22 16:39:03 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "declension"  contracostatimes.com Contra Costa Times, CA If it were, there would still be the problem of determining whether it would follow the rules of the second or the fifth declension , ie Lexus, Lexi or Lexus, Lexus. But since the word is entirely bogus, you can safely make it plural like any English ...  christiancentury.org The Christian Century The word jeremiad entered our lexicon in 1780, referring to a narrative of declension that, like the prophecies of Jeremiah, identifies symptoms of decline, contrasts the degenerate present with a virtuous past, and calls for reform and repentance. ...  timesonline.co.uk Times Online, UK His book then becomes a narrative of declension , a lament for a bygone era. And when he writes without humour about contemporary parodies of Lincoln on the internet or in The Simpsons, Schwartz risks sounding like a grumpy old man, yelling at kids to ... From Google News Search: "declension"  i20.photobucket.com 190px x 190px | 38.70kB [source page] CD Dark Swedish Death Metal Their latest $13 00 From Yahoo Image Search: "declension"  the3seas.com Alexandra Erin hu, 25 Jun 2009 01:01:31 GM I don t know anything about any empires except Elakebassis, Jace said, though if he were to be perfectly honest, he d have to admit that he didn t know much about that one. He knew that Faresia was supposed to be a part of it, ...  byki.com unknown Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GM Declension. /Conjugation Challenge in Latin is a free Latin lesson from Byki List Central - free shared lists for language learning.  autodidacy.com James Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:05:00 GM Remember when we talked in our English grammar review about . declensions. ? Latin does with all nouns, pronouns, and adjectives what English only does for pronouns, in a much more complex and involved way. Each noun, pronoun, and adjective ... From Google Blog Search: "declension" |
