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accidence [ˈæksɪdəns] n (Linguistics / Grammar) inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc. [from Latin accidentia accidental matters, hence inflections of words, from accidere to happen. See accident] accidence the aspect of grammar that deals with inflections and word order. See also: Grammar
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Translations accidence n (Gram) → Formenlehre f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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My father had the contempt of familiarity with it, having himself written a very brief sketch of our accidence, and he seems to have let me plunge into the sea of Spanish verbs and adverbs, nouns and pronouns, and all the rest, when as yet I could not confidently call them by name, with the serene belief that if I did not swim I would still somehow get ashore without sinking. Moreover, he had written a Latin Accidence, which was used in schools more than half a century after his death; so that the good old man, even in his grave, was still the cause of trouble and stripes to idle schoolboys. She had worked even at the Latin accidence, fondly hoping that she might be capable of instructing him in that language. |
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