First female declension in Slovenian

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The first female declension of Slovene has similarities with the Latin A-declension and can probably be traced back to the same Urindo-European declension.

For a basic understanding of declensions, see: Case .

Basic form

The shapes are regularly formed as follows, using the example of hiša (The House):

	singular	Two number	Plural
Nominative	hiš a	hiš i	hiš e
Genitive	hiš e	hiš _	hiš _
dative	hiš i	hiš ama	hiš am
accusative	hiš o	hiš i	hiš e
locative	hiš i	hiš ah	hiš ah
Instrumental	hiš o	hiš ama	hiš ami

The _ sign means that this form has no ending.

The Lady

A case for itself is gospa (the lady):

	singular	Two number	Plural
Nominative	gosp a	gosp i	gosp e
Genitive	gosp e	gosp a	gosp a
dative	gosp e	gosp ema	gosp em
accusative	gosp o	gosp i	gosp e
locative	gosp e	gosp eh	gosp eh
Instrumental	gosp o	gosp ema	gosp emi

The form gosp ej is also used for the dative singular .

Words ending in -ev

Female nouns ending in -ev are a variant of this declension .

Examples

cerkev	( Church )
molitev	( Prayer )
breskev	( Peach )

Declination table

	singular	Two number	Plural
Nominative	cerk ev	cerk vi	cerk ve
Genitive	cerk ve	cerk ev	cerk ev
dative	cerk vi	cerk vama	cerk vam
accusative	cerk ev	cerk vi	cerk ve
locative	cerk vi	cerk veh	cerk veh
Instrumental	cerk vijo	cerk vama	cerk vami

mother and daughter

The words mati (mother) and hči (daughter) are declined as follows:

	singular	Two number	Plural
Nominative	mat _ i	mat he i	mat he e
Genitive	mat he e	mat he _	mat he _
dative	mat he i	mat he ima	mat it in
accusative	mat he _	mat he i	mat he e
locative	mat he i	mat he ih	mat he ih
Instrumental	mat he jo	mat he ima	mat he imi

Adjectives

Adjectives decline as follows, using len (lazy) as an example:

	singular	Two number	Plural
Nominative	len a	len i	len e
Genitive	len e	len ih	len ih
dative	len i	len ima	len im
accusative	len o	len i	len e
locative	len i	len ih	len ih
Instrumental	len o	len ima	len imi

See also