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Declension (decline) |
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| Declension: a class of words (noun, pronoun, adjective) | Nominative | Subject | The girl bought a puppy. | ||
| with the same or similar system of changes. The changes | |||||
| occur in gender, number and case. | Genitive | Possession | The girl's wound was serious. | ||
| The wound of the girl | |||||
| Gender: masculine, feminine, neuter. | |||||
| Dative | Indirect Object | The doctor gave the girl a shot. | |||
| Number: singular (one) and | The doctor gave a shot to the girl. | ||||
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| Accusative | •Direct object | The puppy bit the girl. | |||
| Case: the relationship of a word (a noun, pronoun or | •The object of | ||||
| adjective) to the other words in the sentence. In Latin, | some prepositions | The puppy ran towards the girl. | |||
| this is usually indicated by the word-end. | |||||
| Ablative | The object of | I went to the doctor with the girl. | |||
| prepositions meaning | |||||
| from, with, in or by | |||||
| (FWIB). | |||||