declense
declense verb: to decline (to inflect for case and number).
Verb
declense (third-person singular simple present declenses, present participle declensing, simple past and past participle declensed)
- To decline (to inflect for case and number).
- In moorish vulgar Arabic there is no true declensing because the final sings are suppressed; See page 13 N°- 30, one form alone being vulgarly used for all the cases in determinate as well as indeterminate nouns.1900, José Lerchundi, Rudiments of the Arabic-Vulgar of Morocco
- I reckon that Lichtenstein had found a Latin genitive abdimi ('of Abdim') but thought it was in the nominative case, not yet declensed in the genitive, and that the person's name was Abdimi, so he applied yet again a Latin genitival suffix.2014, Nachum Dershowitz, Language, Culture, Computation: Computational Linguistics and Linguistics: Essays Dedicated to Yaacov Choueka on the Occasion of His 75 Birthday
Forms of declense
| third-person singular present | declenses |
|---|---|
| present participle | declensing |
| past participle | declensed |
| past | declensed |
Origin of declense
Back-formation from declension.
Questions about declense
- What does declense mean?
- Declense means to decline (to inflect for case and number).
- What part of speech is declense?
- Declense is a verb.
- What is the past tense of declense?
- The past tense of declense is declensed.
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