declinable

[ dih-klahy-nuh-buhl ]

adjective

, Grammar.

1. able to be declined.

Other Words From

• unde·clina·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of declinable¹

1520–30; < Middle French, equivalent to decliner to decline + -able -able; or decline + -able

Example Sentences

The same nouns may be partly declinable and partly indeclinable, and in some of their cases may have fallen out of use.

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Hence the last vowel of the nominative, or in general of any declinable word, may be called the characteristic vowel.

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This has been written to show that verbs of languages in general are as naturally declinable as nouns.

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In these examples the declinable adjectives are rendered negative in see.

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Of these, the first five are declinable; the other four are indeclinable.

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