declinable

See also: déclinable

English

Etymology

From decline +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈklaɪnəbəɫ/

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Adjective

declinable (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Capable of being declined; of a word, having inflections.
   • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 152:

     It is obvious that the system in present-day English is radically different, and that the notion of case (i.e. a form or modification of a declinable word) is now of very little significance.

Antonyms

• indeclinable

Derived terms

• undeclinable

Translations

capable of being declined

Belarusian: скланя́льны (sklanjálʹny) Bulgarian: склоня́ем (sklonjáem) Chinese: Mandarin: 存在變格的 / 存在变格的 (cúnzài biàngé de), 能變位的 / 能变位的 (néng biànwèi de) Czech: sklonný Finnish: taipuva (fi) French: déclinable (fr) German: deklinierbar (de), deklinabel (de) Greek: πτωτικός (el) (ptotikós) Hungarian: ragozható (hu) Italian: declinabile Japanese: 語形変化ができる (ごけいへんができる, gokei henka ga dekiru) Korean: 격(格) 변화(變化)가 있는 (gyeok byeonhwa-ga inneun) Latin: declinabilis Manx: yn-jeechleayney Polish: odmienny (pl) Russian: склоня́емый (ru) (sklonjájemyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: скло̀њив, де̏клинабӣлан Roman: sklònjiv (sh), dȅklinabīlan (sh) Slovak: sklonný Ukrainian: відмі́нюваний (vidmínjuvanyj)

Further reading

• “declinable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Spanish

Adjective

declinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural declinables)

1. declinable

Further reading

• “declinable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024