DeclineName

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Added in 2.4.0 / 1.13.2

Returns suggested declensions for a Russian name.

genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, prepositional = DeclineName(name, gender, declensionSet)

Arguments

name

string - Nominative form of the player's or pet's name (string)

gender

number - Gender for the returned names (for declensions of the player's name, should match the player's gender; for the pet's name, should be neuter).

ID	Gender
1	Neutrum / Unknown
2	Male
3	Female

declensionSet

number - Ranging from 1 to GetNumDeclensionSets(). Lower indices correspond to "better" suggestions for the given name.

Returns

genitive

string

dative

string

accusative

string

instrumental

string

prepositional

string

Details

• Requires the ruRU client.
• Static names for e.g NPCs are in DeclinedWord.db2, DeclinedWordCases.db2