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A comment on English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (2013).

Re:English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (2013) by lnyng on Friday March 01, 2019 @05:22PM (#19285916)
Hope that I am not the only one confused about this: what does "decline" mean in the title?
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Re:English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (2013) by Geimfari on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:14PM (#19286241)
It's a confusing title. It would be more clear as "The declension of the word "dog" in various languages".
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Re:English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (2013) by sjwpv on Friday March 01, 2019 @05:24PM (#19285935)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension
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Re:English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (2013) by plq on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:05AM (#19288865)
The correct verb is "declinate". The title is wrong. Declination (not declension) is like conjugation bur for nouns.

Important note: I don't care about the fact that none of the English dictionaries agree with me in this respect :)

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