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declinable

/dɪˈklɪnəbəl/ adjective · British & US
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What does declinable mean?

adjective

Capable of being declined; having the property of being inflected for grammatical case, number, and gender. In linguistics, a declinable word is one that can change its form to indicate grammatical function.

Example

"The declinable nouns in the language are subject to a complex set of inflectional rules."

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