[lojban] Re: inflect, conjugate, decline, and other grammar terms

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 20:51, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> I see. I would say it's still conjugation. The passé composé for some verbs
> in French also agrees in gender and number with its subject, doesn't it?

The passé composé consists of "être" or "avoir", which is conjugated just as 
it is when it's the main verb, and the past participle, which agrees in 
gender and number with the subject, if the auxiliary verb is "être", or 
sometimes the direct object, if it's "avoir".

I think "decline" implies inflection for case, as does "oblique", both terms 
implying that the nominative case is "upright" and other cases are "tilted". 
I wouldn't say that a French adjective is declined, just inflected. 
So "tersumvlacne" for "decline"?

Pierre


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