deklinaatsioon
Deklinaatsioon is the term used in Estonian and Latvian languages to describe the grammatical process of changing the form of a word, usually a noun, pronoun, adjective, or numeral, to express different grammatical categories such as case, number, and gender. In many Indo‑European languages, declension is the primary means by which inflectional morphology signals syntactic relationships within a clause, replacing explicit word order or prepositions.
The declension system of a language is often categorized into a small number of paradigms or stems,
In typologically diverse languages, declension can vary widely. Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, have little
The study of declension is central to historical linguistics, as changes in case endings often trace the