6.7 Declensions. I discussed in 5.7 how there are different inflectional patterns that English nouns follow in forming their plural. Some add “s,” some add “es,” and others change the vowel in the stem of the word (e.g., “men”). The pattern a word follows does not affect its meaning, only its form. “Children” and “childs” would mean the same thing, if the latter were actually a word. In Greek there are basically three inflectional patterns. Each of these patterns is called a “declension.” What declension