2.12. Declension refers to different ways to change the ending of a word to indicate its function in the sentence, or we could say that it is a set of endings in a fixed pattern used to indicate case and number. Various languages have varying numbers of such sets; Greek has three declensions, Latin has five. Let me illustrate this concept with “goofy English.” We could say that there are three English declensions for plural. The s declension: This declension would include all the words
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