#declension

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Add to this the fact there's no recognizable word for "he" or "she", no distinct future tense, two types of infinitive, and numerals that not even a Mayan would believe: sweet and innocent sixteen, for example, can be expressed under circumstances I'd rather not inquire rinto as kuueteistkümneis consisting in a genitive kuue, a partitive teist, and a plural inessive kümneis, roughly equivalent to 6 in the second set of 10s - three different cases in one word!

Although it sounds and is complicated, it is so only at the beginning. Afterwards, it gets worse.

- A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names, Simon Hamilton pages vii-viii

Ah, you’re right! My bad. That’s doubly embarrassing because I took German for 4 years in High School and College and I just didn’t even think about it before saying that. 

I think I also accidentally used the word ‘conjugation’ across the board to refer to inflection, which was incorrect of me. I think it’s because declension in general isn’t a word familiar to most English speakers, and it’s drifted out of my vocabulary as of late. 

By the way, for those that are a bit lost:

Inflection is the process of changing a word’s form (adding suffixes, affixes, changing vowels, etc) without altering their lexical category to ‘fit’ with information provided by other parts of the sentence.

Conjugation is the inflection of verbs.

We have verb conjugation in English based on time (past, present, future, etc) as well as subject - 

“I run” vs “He runs”

Declension is the inflection of everything else - nouns, adjectives, the rest. 

This includes the exact thing mentioned by kind anon up there, as well as the singular example I can think of in English, which is declension due to number -

One tomato (singular, no s on noun)

One million tomatoes (plural, +es suffix on noun)

Thanks for the note!

Case, from casus (lat.: a falling, as in ‘a noun falling away from its original form’): The change of a noun to show its relationship to other words in a sentence.

A declension of a noun is a list of all its potential cases. To decline a noun is to go through all its cases.

Nominative: when the noun is the subject of a sentence

Vocative: when the noun is the person being directly addressed

Accusative: when the noun is the direct object of a sentence

Genitive: when the noun shows possession; of [noun]

Dative: when the noun is the indirect object of a sentence; to, for [noun]

Ablative: when the noun marks the preposition of a sentence; by, with, from, on, in [noun]

Latin Declension Table bc I'm bored and also love grammar

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