Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

masculine declension

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English

Syllables: mas-cu-line de-clen-sion
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate masculine grammatical gender.

Example Sentences

"Feminine declension treats ‘k’, ‘g’, ‘ch’ as softenable, whereas masculine and neuter declension does not (hence they take the ‘other’ ending, ‘-u’)."

Questions

What does masculine declension mean?: the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate masculine grammatical gender.

How to pronounce masculine declension

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