Deklinatiolla

Deklinatiolla is a Finnish expression used in linguistics to refer to a word or form that is inflected according to a particular declension pattern. It denotes the relationship between a lexical item and its inflectional paradigm, i.e., how its endings change to express case, number, or other grammatical categories in a given language.

In languages with clear declensions, nouns, adjectives, and sometimes pronouns follow one or more declension classes. The phrase deklinatiolla is often used in grammar descriptions, dictionaries, and teaching materials to indicate which declension pattern governs a word's forms. It helps speakers and learners predict and generate the other inflected forms by applying the endings associated with that declension.

The term is not a standalone grammatical category; rather, it is a prepositional phrase that accompanies statements about inflection. It may appear together with the name of a language or a specific declension type, for example, describing that a Latin noun "is on the first declension" or that a word in a given language belongs to a particular declensional class. In Finnish-language grammar, the concept can also appear when discussing borrowed or foreign words that follow non-native declension schemes.

Overall, deklinatiolla serves as a concise descriptor in linguistic descriptions to indicate that a word follows a defined set of inflectional endings. See also declension, inflection, and paradigm.