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Indeclinable

 [in-di-klahy-nuh-buhl]  

in·de·clin·a·ble

   [in-di-klahy-nuh-buhl]
adjective Grammar.
not capable of being declined; having no inflected forms: used especially of a word belonging to a form class most of whose members are declined, as the Latin adjective decem, “ten.”
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin indēclīnābilis unchangeable, inflexible. See in-3, declinable

Related forms
in·de·clin·a·ble·ness, noun
in·de·clin·a·bly, adverb
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indeclinable (ˌɪndɪˈklaɪnəbəl)
 
—adj
(of a noun or pronoun) having only one form; not declined for case or number
 
inde'clinableness
 
—n
 
inde'clinably
 
—adv

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