How To Use Declension In A Sentence
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A convenient summary of Latin declension and conjugation is available on-line here.
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In Latin, if a word is second declension, it will be masculine.
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Anyways, lest I ramble on again, I've renamed my pdf Etrusco-Lemnian Declension and it's to be found in the Lingua Files section as always.
Expanding the Etrusco-Lemnian primer
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He has moreover enriched his work by adding to it an ecclesiastic compute with all its indications; an orrery after the Copernican system, representing the mean tropical revolutions of each of the planets visible to the naked eye, the phases of the moon, the eclipses of the sun and moon, calculated for ever; the true time and the sideral time; a new celestial globe with the procession of the equinoxes, solar and lunary equations for the reduction of the mean geocentric ascension and declension of the sun and moon at true times and places.
Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg
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Both authors chronicle the rise and declension of rural Illinois communities and directly address the social/market debate that has invigorated the field of rural history.
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The declension of the adjective interrogative pronoun is like that of the relative one.
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The unfortunate problem with Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic (and probably too with Eteo-Cypriot and Eteo-Cretan) is that no personal endings appear to be attached to verbs in these languages despite the fact that many features like the 1ps and its oblique form (mi and mini), demonstratives and the declensional system (ie. the demonstrative accusative, s-genitive, animate and inanimate plural endings) all find direct connections to PIE.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Redgrave also evokes beautifully the gradual declension into old age.
Driving Miss Daisy – review
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It was in Latin and not English Language classes that we learnt about the various verb tenses and noun declensions.
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The present is thus perceived as that period of declension that is the subject of the jeremiad.
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They can merely turn the accusal around to say you are too permissive or have no sense of morality or decency as in the above ‘declensions’.
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Bayndor: "Indeed it is hard to imagine a language with just 4 declensional cases and without pre- or postpositions in the same time.
Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
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Indeed it is hard to imagine a language with just 4 declensional cases and without pre- or postpositions in the same time.
Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
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Peter Milsom gave two very practical papers on spiritual growth and spiritual declension.
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Veron, Baret and Huloet-Higgins indicate the declensional patterns of nouns in Latin by providing the genitive singular form.
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It is the first declension from the level line of what is right that must be jealously regarded, for the inclined plane is so gentle, that it is easy to fancy we are going straight along.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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The gender of the word alone is ambiguous, occurring in a declension denoting either males or females.
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And when we consider the assurances given us, that these declensions were to antecede the universal prevalence of true religion; they may also serve to increase our hope.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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At present, in relation to this demand that he should learn Latin declensions and conjugations, Tom was in a state of as blank unimaginativeness concerning the cause and tendency of his sufferings, as if he had been an innocent shrewmouse imprisoned in the split trunk of an ash-tree in order to cure lameness in cattle.
I. Tom’s “First Half”. Book II—School-Time
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But if it is righteousness thus to fuse together our divisive impulses and march with one mind through life, there is plainly one thing more unrighteous than all others, and one declension which is irretrievable and draws on the rest.
Lay Morals
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So Hamlet has sent multiple letters to Ophelia without requital prior to his appearance in her closet, and the ‘declension’ which Polonius describes in ‘a short tale’ occurred over some period.
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In the Dreros #1 inscription, we may certainly doubt that these two words represent different declensional forms, although they could be related somehow if the twice-repeated Greek stem turo- is any indication.
A new value for Minoan 'd'
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In the absence of a declension class (indeclinable nouns), neuter agreement is assigned.
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Well, in Old English, "ox" would be declined using weak declension, rendering the plural case as "oxen".
OSNews
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Czech is a Slavic language with a declension system based on seven cases.
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The unfortunate problem with Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic (and probably too with Eteo-Cypriot and Eteo-Cretan) is that no personal endings appear to be attached to verbs in these languages despite the fact that many features like the 1ps and its oblique form (mi and mini), demonstratives and the declensional system (ie. the demonstrative accusative, s-genitive, animate and inanimate plural endings) all find direct connections to PIE.
A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan
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And what on earth is ‘motu’ - ablative form of ‘motus’, but there is no fourth-declension ‘motus’ in Lewis and Short.
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I vaguely remembered that this depends on whether ‘syllabus’ is second declension, in which case the plural would be ‘syllabi’, or fourth declension, in which case it would be ‘syllabus’.
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There are five declensional types in Latin, that are recognized by their terminations in genitive singular.
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According to Birkeland, this is a new development, reflecting a tendency to drop the declensional endings.
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the first declension in Latin
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It belongs to the class of languages called agglutinative, common to the Tauranian race; i.e., it consists of words "glued together," without declension of conjugation.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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I agree that some of the words used might have been simple postpositions like '*-pi', while the others fully-fledged declensional cases.
Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
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Information is a mere click away on the net and if you were honestly knowlegeable in Hurrian than you'd have surely read Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor 2008, p.94 which gives a clear summary of the Hurrian declensional system.
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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In the future, additional functions will be incorporated so that kanji and kana can be used properly and declensional kana endings can be checked.
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That at least is the doctrine of Gibbon; but perhaps it would not be found altogether able to sustain itself against a closer and philosophic examination of the true elements involved in the idea of declension as applied to political bodies.
The Caesars
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Health, strength, agility, and animal spirits, she may sorrowing feel diminish; but she hears everyone complain of similar failures, and she misses them unmurmuring, though not unlamenting; but of beauty, every declension is marked with something painful to self-love.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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The -m would be added by the Romans to fit their declensional types, or alternatively, it could be through an Etruscan derivative with the mass noun suffix -am.
A Minoan word for red dye
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Third Declension which have a short penult in the Genitive; as, segĕs
New Latin Grammar
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It will be observed that the masculine of the adjective is declined exactly like a masculine noun of the second declension, the feminine exactly like a feminine noun of the first declension, and the neuter exactly like a neuter noun of the second declension.
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A careful reading of these reports from dozens of faithful missionaries - who preach the gospel of the sovereign grace of God in Jesus Christ - will bear out what we say about the widespread declension in missionary theology and methods.
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What wonder, then, that not until the first Omaric madness had passed away were the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr., lifted into the light after an infinity of sudor et labor spent in excavating under the 9,000 irregular verbs, 80 declensions, and 41 exceptions to every rule which go to make the ancient Mango-Bornese dialect in which the poem was originally written, foremost among the dead languages!
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.
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The fifth declension is unlikely because those nouns are all feminine.
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And restricting ourselves only to PIE and internal reconstruction of PIE, I've also already stated that a deictic postclitic with added support from real-world languages which do the same sufficiently explains the marked nominative in PIE without contorting the entire declensional system to eke out an ergative suffix so that you can fantasize about Hurrian links.
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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On the other hand the action of the state-religion upon the state, the condition of Al-Islam during the reign of Al – Rashid, its declension from the primitive creed and its relation to Christianity and Christendom, require a somewhat extended notice.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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As a sentence, it cannot be made plural by adding the nominative plural suffix for second declension nouns.
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In Latin, the nominative case of first declension nouns ends in'a '.
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The days when they matter singe hair color; they cool touch, seat cushion declension from beaten haunches craving rest.
Lawn Clippings
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There are, in short, some good historical reasons why we cannot simply formulate mathematical principles of noun declension and deduce all declensional forms in terms of a simple formula.
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I've expanded my previously announced pdf to include not only my basic sketch of the Etrusco-Lemnian nominal declension but now also the pronouns and demonstratives as well.
Expanding the Etrusco-Lemnian primer
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Cassis, caulis, fascis, finis, etc. (containing the list of masculine nouns of the third declension ending in-is), but long involved rules of syntax also that are absolutely unintelligible except to the initiated and those who are by nature the children of light.
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
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The author is careful not to mock nineteenth century religious sensibilities, nor to denounce commercialization as an example of declension.
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It will possibly be asked here, is grammar then of no use? and have those who have taken so much pains in reducing several languages to rules and observations; who have writ so much about declensions and conjugations, about concords and syntaxis, lost their labour, and been learned to no purpose?
Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 161-170
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By 1794, writers of scientific Latin, perhaps fed up with the non-Latin sound of gas as an indeclinable, had changed to gas, - is, a noun of the third declension.
The Vatican’s Dictionary of Recent Latinity « The Half-Baked Maker
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In that case, mliθu and mliθuns would merely be two declensional forms of the same word and we'd no longer have an irritating hapax of mystery hampering our translation efforts.
Is Etruscan muifu even a word?
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Such a reevaluation questions the view that the Second Great Awakening fits into a "declension" model in American religious history and forces a new understanding of the connection between this movement and American commercial markets.
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