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
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.
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