What is the difference between inflexion and declension?
inflexion | declension | Hypernyms |
(grammar): A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
(grammar): The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
Inflexion is a hypernym of declension.
As nouns the difference between inflexion and declension
is that inflexion is (inflection) while declension is (grammar): a way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.declension
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(wikipedia declension) (en noun)- In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension . Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.