0 a group of nouns or adjectives that decline in the same way: --
Rex is in the third declension
How many declensions are there in German?
1 a situation in which a medical condition gets worse --
More specific conditions are associated with the various subtypes of declension.
This can be captured in terms of a constraint on the type declension.
By contrast, if we treat it as a pronoun, the absence of declension is just what one expects.
First, there is no distinction between strong and weak declension.
The three singular forms belonged to these same three declensions.
Just as a strong vowel-final partitive is diagnostic of the first declension, a strong genitive is a marker of the second declension.
The declension of proper nouns, particularly foreign ones, had always presented difficulties, and this construction could have been a way of dealing with them.
Firstly, internal sandhi is applied by morphological rules for word formation from stems, prefixes, and suffixes used in noun declension and verb conjugation.
