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indeclinable

/in-di-klahy-nuh-buhl/US // ˌɪn dɪˈklaɪ nə bəl //UK // (ˌɪndɪˈklaɪnəbəl) //

不确定的,不稳定,不确定,不稳定的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Grammar.

    • : not capable of being declined; having no inflected forms: used especially of a word belonging to a form class most of whose members are declined, as the Latin adjective decem, “ten.”

Examples

  • The indeclinable, remain as simple adjuncts to the verbs, and the latter put on the negative form.

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

  • Both these forms of Comparison have an aspirated as well as a primary form, but are otherwise indeclinable.

  • The genitives his (his, its), hiere (her), hiera (their) are used as indeclinable possessives.

  • Fas was at all times indeclinable, and is rarely found even as an accusative, as in Virg.