declinable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- undeclinable adjective
Etymology
Origin of declinable
1520–30; < Middle French, equivalent to decliner to decline + -able -able; or decline + -able
Example Sentences
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The word two however is declinable as a noun, and possibly it may be so taken in Locke's phrase.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
As for t'one and t'other, they should be 'tone and 'tother, being elisions for that one and that other, relics of the Anglo-Saxon declinable definite article, still used in Frisic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various
In the pure Saxon of an earlier date, the words seldom occur; and in that ancient dialect an, I believe, is used only as a declinable numerical adjective, and a only as a preposition.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
The latter is a declinable word, and found in the objective case; the former is indeclinable, and found in no case.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Hence the last vowel of the nominative, or in general of any declinable word, may be called the characteristic vowel.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander
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