Declension (nouns) in the context of "Grammatical categories"

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⭐ Core Definition: Declension (nouns)

In linguistics, declension (verb: to decline) is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence by way of an inflection. Declension may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and determiners. It serves to indicate number (e.g. singular, dual, plural), case (e.g. nominative, accusative, genitive, or dative), gender (e.g. masculine, feminine, or neuter), and a number of other grammatical categories. Inflectional change of verbs is called conjugation.

Declension occurs in many languages. It is an important aspect of language families like Quechuan (i.e., languages native to the Andes), Indo-European (e.g. German, Icelandic, Irish, Lithuanian and Latvian, Slavic, Sanskrit, Latin, Ancient and Modern Greek, Albanian, Romanian, Kurdish, and Modern Armenian), Bantu (e.g. Swahili, Zulu, Kikuyu), Semitic (e.g. Modern Standard Arabic), Finno-Ugric (e.g. Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian), and Turkic (e.g. Turkish).

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Declension (nouns) in the context of Mister

Mister, usually written in its contracted form Mr. (American English) or Mr (British English), is a commonly used English honorific for men without a higher honorific, or professional title, or any of various designations of office. The title Mr derived from earlier forms of master, as the equivalent female titles Mrs, Miss, and Ms all derived from earlier forms of mistress. Master is sometimes still used as an honorific for boys and young men.

The plural form is Messrs(.), derived from the French title messieurs in the 18th century. Messieurs is the plural of monsieur (originally mon sieur, "my lord"), formed by declining both of its constituent parts separately.

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← Mister ← Mr.
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Linguistics → Word → Syntactic function → Inflection → Noun → Pronoun → Adjective → Adverb → Determiner → Grammatical number → Grammatical case → Nominative case → Accusative case → Genitive case → Dative case → Grammatical gender → Grammatical categories → Verb → Grammatical conjugation → Quechuan languages → Andes → Indo-European languages → German language → Icelandic language → Irish language → Baltic language → Slavic languages → Sanskrit → Latin → Ancient Greek → Modern Greek → Albanian language → Romanian language → Kurdish language → Modern Armenian → Bantu languages → Swahili language → Zulu language → Kikuyu language → Semitic languages → Modern Standard Arabic → Finno-Ugric languages → Hungarian language → Finnish language → Estonian language → Turkic languages → Turkish language →