Sentence examples for noun declensions from inspiring English sources

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This may be possible in theory, but most readers, despite the author's noisy cheerleading, will pull up short when faced with Latin's notorious system of noun declensions.

When I was learning Latin, I had a professor who was frustrated that I couldn't get all the noun declensions straight within the first week of class.

In the first of its two parts, Kitāb al-luma ("Book of the Many-Coloured Flower Beds"), Ibn Janāḥ dealt in large measure with grammar proper and included discussions of parts of speech and prefixes and provided a detailed outline of noun declensions.

Pay special attention to noun declensions that look similar but are distinct.

Start memorizing the noun declensions by learning the case endings of the first declension singular.

Everyone's mind works differently when it comes to learning noun declensions and analyzing sentences.

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In the passage from Latin to Romance, verbal inflection has survived much more than noun declension.

The dual number was lost, and a fifth noun declension was developed from a heterogeneous collection of nouns.

Because of the large number of names occurring in the inscriptions, the noun declension system can be understood reasonably well.

His other works include a study of the noun declension in Slavic, Baltic, and Germanic (1876) and several studies on Lithuanian and Slavic accentology.

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development is seen in Bulgarian and Macedonian, in which noun declension has almost completely disappeared and has been replaced by syntactic combinations using prepositions (na kniga 'of a book, to a book').

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