The verb decline , which comes from the Latin word declināre , can refer to the polite rejection of a proposal or an invitation . For example: “You are very kind, but I am afraid that I must decline the invitation since I have another commitment,” “Health problems led the deputy to decline his candidacy,” “I am going to have to decline my aspirations.”
The idea of decline can also be used with respect to a decline or a negative trend : “The company began to decline when its founder died,” “The departure due to injury of its captain caused the team to begin to decline,” “What do you plan to do? ” the government to reverse the decline in productive activity?” .
Decline, on the other hand, is what something does when it approaches its end or end : “I love going to the beach at the end of the day to watch the sunset over the sea,” “The decisive goal came at the end of the day.” party” , “In the reclining of life I aspire to be at peace” .
As is also the case with other terms in our language , in everyday speech the verb declinar is often confused in its reflexive form, declinarse , with decantarse . More specifically, some Spanish speakers incorrectly say that they are in favor of something , when in fact they mean to express that they are in favor of something .
Although in no dictionary is this word given a meaning that leads us to think about using it, but, on the contrary, it is presented as a synonym for "rejecting something politely", this error spreads to through the media and thus reaches millions of listeners and readers who accept it as correct and incorporate it into their language.
For example, it is common to find in newspapers and radio or television news programs sentences like the following: "The government has declined for an infrastructure that is not so different from the current one as to justify the monetary investment," "To leave "After the period of sexual discrimination, the army has finally decided to increase the number of women in its troops."
Of course, confusion in the use of language does not usually occur just because, without any reason, although the explanation is often difficult to find. In this particular case, it is probably due to the fact that the dictionary offered by the RAE indicates among the meanings of the verb decline that it can be understood as "to lean to the sides or downwards" or "to change customs or nature until reaching the extreme opposite to the original.
Although both definitions may have points in common with that of the verb decant , in this case we are talking about involuntary movements , not as a result of a choice or preference, and which always point to a deterioration , a decay; so much so that as an example of the change in customs the RAE proposes "decline from virtue to weakness, to vice."
In the field of grammar , inflection is an action that takes place in languages that have casual inflection , consisting of expressing the forms that a term exhibits as a manifestation of the various cases.
Declension, in this framework, is a procedure of pronouns , adjectives and nouns to indicate the different grammatical relationships existing in a sentence. When declining, you can mark the indirect object, the direct object, the subject, etc.
The term is generally altered through a prefix, an infix or a suffix, achieving a nominal inflection that modifies certain morphemes of the word . Decline causes a grammatical change to be generated.