declinable

American  

[dih-klahy-nuh-buhl] / dɪˈklaɪ nə bəl /

adjective

Grammar.

1. able to be declined.

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Other Word Forms

• undeclinable adjective

Etymology

Origin of declinable

1520–30; < Middle French, equivalent to decliner to decline + -able -able; or decline + -able

Example Sentences

Of these, the first five are declinable; the other four are indeclinable.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander

Proper Adjectives are, in many instances, capable of being converted into declinable nouns: as, European, a European, the Europeans; Greek, a Greek, the Greeks; Asiatic, an Asiatic, the Asiatics.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

As for t'one and t'other, they should be 'tone and 'tother, being elisions for that one and that other, relics of the Anglo-Saxon declinable definite article, still used in Frisic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

If the infinitive mood is really a declinable substantive, none of our grammarians have placed it in the right chapter; except that bold contemner of all grammatical and literary authority, Oliver B. Peirce.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The latter is a declinable word, and found in the objective case; the former is indeclinable, and found in no case.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold