indeclinable in a sentence
Examples
- I ran it through the OED site and found a description of a word as being the indeclinable varient of another.
- :In ancient Latin / Greek translations of the Bible, some names were treated as indeclinable ( e . g.
- Reason : In the Greek language the indeclinable word ???? ( [ ev?ro ] ) is used as the currency's name.
- In Russian, for example, the so-called'gerund'is not a noun at all, but a sort of indeclinable adjective.
- Indeclinable adjectives are completely invariable, and can end in either consonants or vowels ( including " " and " + " ).
- In the New Testament, the word Mammon, is declined like a Greek word whereas many of the other Aramaic and Hebrew words are treated as indeclinable foreign words.
- The Indeclinable Feminines are an additional class of weak noun which originally had a word stem with the ending-in of which in Old Norse only the-i remains.
- Those languages that have a developed case system may face problems with loanwords-at least in contemporary Slavic-language dictionaries increasing amounts of terms are labelled as " indeclinable ".
- In the late 14th century ( particularly in Old Norwegian ), an indeclinable form was popular, " inu " or " hinu ", but at no other time.
- Since adjectives in English are indeclinable, this leads me to believe that " woman / women " here is not an adjective ( whereas " female ", had it been used, most definitely is ).