Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate number ( at least singular and plural ), case ( nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.

Nouns and adjectives have two cases, nominative / oblique and accusative / allative, and two numbers, singular and plural ; the adjectival form of personal pronouns behaves like a genitive case.

Direct objects take an accusative case suffix-n, which goes after any plural suffix.

Pronouns show distinctions in person ( 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ), number ( singular, dual, and plural in the ancient language ; singular and plural alone in later stages ), and gender ( masculine, feminine, and neuter ), and decline for case ( from six cases in the earliest forms attested to four in the modern language ).

Meanwhile let is in the genitive ( plural ) case.

Esperanto's inventor, L. L. Zamenhof, had suggested in an 1894 proposition for a Reformed Esperanto several changes that Ido adopted: eliminating the accented letters and the accusative case, changing the plural to an Italianesque-i, and replacing the table of correlatives with more Latinate words.

However, that is not the case originally in Greek, where there is plural.

Note that the plural suffix "- s " can also influence the form taken by the preceding morpheme, as in the case of the words leaf and knife, which end with in the singular, but have in the plural ( leaves, knives ).

On a morphophonological level these morphemes may be analyzed as ending in a morphophoneme // F //, which becomes voiced when a voiced consonant ( in this case the // z // of the plural ending ) is attached to it.

For example, the personal pronouns in English can be organized into tables, using the categories of person ( first, second, third ), number ( singular vs. plural ), gender ( masculine, feminine, neuter ), and case ( subjective, objective, and possessive ).

In this case, the analogy applies both to the form of the words and to their meaning: in each pair, the first word means " one of X ", while the second " two or more of X ", and the difference is always the plural form-s affixed to the second word, signaling the key distinction between singular and plural entities.

Old Irish tuath ( plural tuatha ) means " people, tribe, nation "; and dé is the genitive case of día, " god, goddess, supernatural being, object of worship " ( they are often referred to simply as the Tuatha Dé, a phrase also used to refer to the Israelites in early Irish Christian texts ).

This is the case in English: every noun is either singular or plural ( a few, such as " fish ", can be either, according to context ), and at least some modifiers of nouns — namely the demonstratives, the personal pronouns, the articles, and verbs — are inflected to agree with the number of the nouns to which they refer: " this car " and " these cars " are correct, while "* this cars " or "* these car " are ungrammatical and, therefore, incorrect.

The Finnish language has a plural form of every noun case.

and where no specific number is mentioned, the plural version of the partitive case is used

And by adding the suffixes '- de ' and '- ga ' to the singular partitive in case of plural, thus making first a plural genitive case and then adding the comitative suffix:

Like many of his poems ( e. g. fr. s 38, 326, 338, 347, 350 ), it begins with a verb ( in this case " Let's drink!

The accusative case ( abbreviated ) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb.

If this article / noun pair is used as the object of a verb, it ( usually ) changes to the accusative case, which entails an article shift in German – Ich sehe den Wagen.

* The case also shows the agent when used with the passive voice of the verb.

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

During the Middle Bulgarian period, the language underwent dramatic changes, losing the Slavonic case system, but preserving the rich verb system ( while the development was exactly the opposite in other Slavic languages ) and developing a definite article.

A copula is often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case.

In the case of English, this is the verb to be.

The latter two don't make sense, so " looks " in this case is being used as an action verb.

" Dative " comes from Latin cāsus datīvus, meaning " case for giving ", a translation of Greek " inflection for giving ", from its use with the verb didónai " to give ".

It survives in this fixed form from the days of Old English ( having undergone, however, phonetic changes with the rest of the language ), in which it was constructed as "" + " me " ( the dative case of the personal pronoun ) + " thinks " ( i. e., " seems ", < Old English thyncan, " to seem ", a verb closely related to the verb thencan, " to think ", but distinct from it in Old English ; later it merged with " think " and lost this meaning ).

The ergative case ( abbreviated ) is the grammatical case that identifies the subject of a transitive verb in ergative – absolutive languages.

New work in case theory has vigorously supported the idea that the ergative case identifies the agent ( the intentful performer of an action ) of a verb ( Woolford 2004 ).

In the case of the " existence " form ( and less idiomatically, the " location " form ), one might ( for example ) simply substitute the verb " exists ".

The major change in nominal morphology was the loss of the dative case ( its functions being largely taken over by the genitive ); in the verb, the major change was the loss of the infinitive, with a concomitant rise in new periphrastic forms.

In many European languages, the word for " case " is cognate to the English word, all stemming from the Latin casus, related to the verb cadere, " to fall ", with the sense that all other cases have fallen away from the nominative.

* The nominative case indicates the subject of a finite verb: We went to the store.

* The accusative case indicates the direct object of a verb: The clerk remembered us.

* The dative case indicates the indirect object of a verb: The clerk gave us a discount.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

he is very close to being a mental case.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

There may be a case of this sort, but it is not one we wish to argue, here.

In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

Such, he implies, is the case with his friend, who is not really a new convert himself but merely a favorer of new converts.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

In any case, who ever thought that New York is typical of anything??

American history should clinch the case when Congress is asked to approve.

Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.

The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.

If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.

Besides the lack of an adequate ethical dimension to the Governor's case, one can ask seriously whether our lead over the Russians in quality and quantity of nuclear weapons is so slight as to make the tests absolutely necessary.

In my own case, I submit that such reasonable and fair exercise is woefully lacking.

In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

in the case of a partnership or corporation, the existence of which has been terminated and on behalf of which an award is made, payment shall be made, except as provided in paragraphs ( 3 ) and ( 4 ), to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto ; ;