:: : What was throwing me off is the fact that " satis " is indeclinable, which makes me feel like I'm getting away with something . talk ) 16 : 44, 3 October 2011 ( UTC)
22.
The past participle is used generally as an adjective meaning a finished action, and it is variable in gender and number in these uses; and also it is used to form the compound tenses ( as in English ) in which it is indeclinable.
23.
I am curious about this : if both languages have grammatical case and gender, are you putting the foreign word in an ( approximately ) correct case and with appropriate adjective-noun agreement, or are you using it as if it was an indeclinable word of default or random gender?
24.
One formation that has been diachronically connected with the " v [ k + s " inflection is "'Cvi "', which in PG ini's grammar of factitive verb where the " + "-stem is indeclinable and used like a preverb.
25.
I know the books say all numbers from 4 to 100 are not, so obviously that includes 21, but I'm wondering if the terminal part, the unus, is considered declinable, on the basis of unus,-a,-um, while viginti is kept indeclinable.
26.
However, in Porphyry's Greek text " De Abstinentia " ( ???v ?????? ??????? ), there is a reference to the now-lost histories of the Mithraic mysteries by Euboulus and Pallas, the wording of which suggests that these authors treated the name " Mithra " as an indeclinable foreign word.
27.
Tal Ilan's catalogue of Jewish name inscriptions of the period ( 2002 ) notes variation is the spelling of " Joseph " ( indeclinable in Greek ) and various shorter ( and sometimes declined ) Greek variants but also notes that the full form " Joseph " is dominant with 47 of 69 Greek inscriptions.
28.
F�rst excludes, however, the proper nouns, the pronouns, and most of the indeclinable particles, and makes many involuntary omissions and errors; his classification of roots is sometimes fanciful . " The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldaic Concordance " ( London, 1843; third edition, 1866 ) is still very useful.
29.
His Iz zapisok po russkoi grammatike contains his writings on predicate forms and the participle ( vol 2, 1874; rev edn 1888; repr 1958 ), the noun and the adjective ( vol 3, 1899; repr 1968 ), and the verb and indeclinable words ( vol 4, 1941; rev edn 1978 ).
30.
However, in Porphyry s Greek text " De Abstinentia " ( ?" ???v ????? ?????? " ?), there is a reference to the now-lost histories of the Mithraic mysteries by Euboulus and Pallas, the wording of which suggests that these authors treated the name " Mithra " as an indeclinable foreign word.
