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PRONUNCIATION OF DECLENSIONAL

declensional  [dɪˈklɛnʃənəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DECLENSIONAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Declensional is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DECLENSIONAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Declension

In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate number, case, and gender. A declension is also a group of nouns that follow a particular pattern of inflection. Declension occurs in many of the world's languages, and features very prominently in many European languages. Old English was a highly inflected language, as befits its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but its declensions greatly simplified as it evolved into Modern English.

Definition of declensional in the English dictionary

The definition of declensional in the dictionary is of or relating to a declension.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DECLENSIONAL


ascensional
əˈsɛnʃənəl
attentional
əˈtenʃənəl
conventional
kənˈvɛnʃənəl
descensional
dɪˈsɛnʃənəl
extensional
ɪkˈstɛnʃənəl
intensional
ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl
intentional
ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl
interventional
ˌɪntəˈvenʃənəl
inventional
ɪnˈvɛnʃənəl
multidimensional
ˌmʌltɪdaɪˈmɛnʃənəl
nonconventional
ˌnɒnkənˈvɛnʃənəl
nondimensional
ˌnɒndaɪˈmenʃənəl
noninterventional
ˌnɒnɪntəˈvɛnʃənəl
one-dimensional
ˌwʌndaɪˈmɛnʃənəl
sponsional
ˈspɒnʃənəl
tensional
ˈtenʃənəl
tridimensional
ˌtraɪdɪˈmɛnʃənəl
unconventional
ˌʌnkənˈvɛnʃənəl
unidimensional
ˌjuːnɪˌdaɪˈmɛnʃənəl
unintentional
ˌʌnɪnˈtɛnʃənəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DECLENSIONAL

declaredly
declarer
declass
declassifiable
declassification
declassified
declassifies
declassify
declaw
declension
declensionally
declinable
declinal
declinant
declinate
declination
declinational
declinator
declinatory
declinature

WORDS THAT END LIKE DECLENSIONAL

additional
constitutional
dimensional
educational
emotional
exceptional
functional
inspirational
institutional
international
national
operational
optional
personal
professional
promotional
regional
the National
the Second International
traditional
transitional

Synonyms and antonyms of declensional in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «declensional» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DECLENSIONAL

Find out the translation of declensional to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of declensional from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «declensional» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

declensional
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

declinadas
570 millions of speakers

English

declensional
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

declensional
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

declensional
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

падежные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

declinações
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

declensional
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

declensional
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Declension
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Deklination
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

declensional
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오쿠
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Declension
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

declensional
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

declensional
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नैराश्यपूर्ण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çekime ait
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

declensional
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

deklinacyjne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відмінкові
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

declensional
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

declensional
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

declensional
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

declensional
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

declensional
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of declensional

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DECLENSIONAL»

The term «declensional» is used very little and occupies the 188.173 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DECLENSIONAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about declensional

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECLENSIONAL»

Discover the use of declensional in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to declensional and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Morphology: Morphology: its place in the wider context
Zaliznjak (1967: 205-207) on the other hand proposes just two declensional classes (he adds the komnata type to zakon and v'ino, and derives the differences from gender differentiation). The number who have suggested four declensional ...
Francis Katamba, 2004
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Untitled
We now return to the question of the number of declensional classes. We have stated that there are four main classes, so far without argument. There are two sets of interwoven problems here: first there are conflicting views as to the number of ...
3
Mouton Classics: From Syntax to Cognition, from Phonology to ...
Such nouns must typically specify declensional class in their lexical entries. However, as we shall see shortly (in the discussion leading to (10)), a substantial proportion of them can be assigned to a declensional class by the setting of a default ...
‎2002
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Gender in Grammar and Cognition
Such nouns must typically specify declensional class in their lexical entries. However, as we shall sec shortly (in the discussion leading to (10)), a substantial proportion of them can be assigned to a declensional class by the setting of a default ...
Barbara Unterbeck, 2000
5
Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition: Defining the ...
Declensional classes (DC) in Czech after Smilauer (1971) ^Proportion of nouns from a particular declensional class Table 1 presents an overview of Czech declension. Each declensional class is represented by one traditional example word ...
Insa Gülzow, Natalia Gagarina, 2007
6
Arabic Grammar and Qurʼānic Exegesis in Early Islam
The use of some of the terms is strikingly different from Sibawayhi, in particular the use of the 'declensional' terms of the Kitab for nunated endings, and the distinction between hafd ( = -in, not used in the Kitab) and garr ( = -i in apocopated ...
C. H. M. Versteegh, 1993
7
The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia
According to Zwettler (1978: 109), the Arab poets were specialists in an archaic form of the language and they were the only ones who were still able to handle the complicated declensional endings. In his view, the case system was beyond ...
Oliver Leaman, 2006
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Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage
declensional. patterns. of. the. noun. The main declensional types may be classified according to gender. For the purposes ... nouns are treated as divisible into ten basic declensional patterns (three masculine, three neuter and four feminine).
Derek Offord, 2005
9
Morphological Typology: From Word to Paradigm
... verbs Heater-oriented declensional plat for Sanskrit The six optimal static principal-part sets for the bearer-oriented declensional plat Optimal dynamic principal parts (circled) for Declensions DCl and DCS in the bearer-oriented declensional ...
Gregory Stump, Raphael A. Finkel, 2013
10
Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation
This implies that related nouns may have different declensional affixes also in what is sometimes called their basic form. We already encountered such instances in (2), e.g., lat. amic-us - amic-a. Such declensional endings are also found in ...
Alexander Onysko, Sascha Michel, 2010

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DECLENSIONAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term declensional is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Translating “Frozen” Into Arabic
From one song to the next, there isn't a declensional ending dropped or an antique expression avoided, whether it is sung by a dancing ... «New Yorker, May 14»
2
Harrius Potter and the Latin revival
Even august Harvard professor and psycholinguist Stephen Pinker trashed Latin in his 2007 book The Language Instinct: “Latin declensional ... «Macleans.ca, May 13»

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