In linguistics, declension is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection. The inflectional change of verbs is called conjugation.

What is an example of a declension?

Declension (other than for number) becomes most obvious in English when looking at pronouns. For example, in a sentence saying that a ball belongs to a male person, with the ball in subject position, there is declension for case (possessive) and gender. The form of the pronoun, then, would be ''his'': The ball was his.

What do the declensions in Latin mean?

Declensions are a system for organizing nouns. Conjugations are a system for organizing verbs. 3. Declensions have cases (Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Ablative) which can be singular or. plural. (