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In the Indo-European languages, words may have different endings according to their relationship to the other words in a phrase or sentence. The array of such forms for a word is called the declension.

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Noun declension refers to the patterns of how nouns change their form to indicate various grammatical categories such as case, number, and gender. In languages with noun declension, nouns can have different endings or forms depending on their role in the sentence or the relationships they express.

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