declinable

American  

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

adjective

Grammar.

1. able to be declined.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• undeclinable
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of declinable

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

Example Sentences

The same nouns may be partly declinable and partly indeclinable, and in some of their cases may have fallen out of use.

From Cratylus by Jowett, Benjamin

When these occur in the inflections of declinable words, serving to indicate the Root, or in derivatives, serving to point out the primitive word, the omission of them might, on the whole, be unadvisable.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander

But the definite article of that language, which is exactly equivalent to our the, is a declinable word, making no small figure in grammar.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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

In the pure Saxon of an earlier date, the words seldom occur; and in that ancient dialect an, I believe, is used only as a declinable numerical adjective, and a only as a preposition.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold