Sentence examples for declension from inspiring English sources

The end result of that development is seen in Bulgarian and Macedonian, in which noun declension has almost completely disappeared and has been replaced by syntactic combinations using prepositions (na kniga 'of a book, to a book').

The declension of pronouns has been preserved in all Slavic languages.

In the other West Slavic languages and in East Slavic, on the other hand, the old system of declension by case endings has been preserved in spite of the large number of loanwords and other neologisms that have no case distinctions at all (e.g., borrowed Russian nouns like kino 'cinema,' or acronyms ending in a vowel like Rayono 'district education department').

In the adjective declensions there were two innovations: (1) To the Proto-Indo-European vowel types (*o-, *i-, *i-, and *u- stems) it added some pronominal endings to give the Germanic "strong" adjective declension.

(2) It extended the Proto-Indo-European *n- stem endings to all adjectives to give the Germanic "weak" adjective declension.

In the Balkan region, where two closely related Slavic languages, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene, are spoken, dialects are found with synthetic declension (case endings, as in Latin) and analytic declension (use of prepositions and word order, as in English).

These endings may derive from Latin nominative plural first- and second-declension endings -ae and -ī, or they may represent a somewhat irregular development of the -s, favoured elsewhere.

Romanian remains closest in grammatical type to Latin, though its noun-declension system, based on the placement of the definite article after the noun, and its frequent use of the subjunctive mood may owe much to its Balkan neighbours (or to an earlier linguistic substratum).

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Adjectives had strong and weak declensions, the strong showing a mixture of noun and pronoun endings and the weak following the pattern of weak nouns.

Lithuanian adjectives have three declensions, Latvian adjectives have one.