Serbian declension

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Serbian declension (Serbian: деклинација, deklinacija) describes the declension, or system of grammatically-determined modifications, in nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals in the Serbian language. There is a system of 7 cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative and instrumental) in Serbian.

Contents 1 Nouns 1.1 Class I - Masculine / Neuter 1.1.1 Masculine 1.1.2 Neuter 1.2 Class II - Neuter 1.3 Class III - Feminine 1 1.4 Class III - Feminine 2 2 External links

[edit] Nouns

[edit] Class I - Masculine / Neuter

[edit] Masculine

	singular	plural
Nominative	-0	-i
Accusative	-0/-a*	-e
Genitive	-a	-a
Dative/Locative !	-u	-ima
Instrumental	-om/em	-ima
Vocative	-e	-i

• * - without extension (same as nominative) if a word is marking not alive thing; with extension (same as genitive) if a word is marking alive thing
•  ! - distinction between dative and locative is in accent structure and may be seen only if long accent is at the first syllable and word is monosyllabic

[edit] Neuter

	singular	plural
Nominative	-o/e	-a
Accusative	-o/e	-a
Genitive	-a	-a
Dative/Locative	-u	-ima
Instrumental	-om/em	-ima
Vocative	-o/e	-a

[edit] Class II - Neuter

	singular	plural
Nominative	-e	-(n/t)a
Accusative	-e	-(n/t)a
Genitive	-(n/t)a	-(n/t)a
Dative/Locative	-(n/t)u	-(n/t)ima
Instrumental	-(n/t)om	-(n/t)ima
Vocative	-e	-(n/t)a

[edit] Class III - Feminine 1

	singular	plural
Nominative	-a	-e
Accusative	-u	-e
Genitive	-e	-a
Dative/Locative	-i	-ama
Instrumental	-om	-ama
Vocative	-o/a	-e

[edit] Class III - Feminine 2

	singular	plural
Nominative	-0	-i
Accusative	-	-i
Genitive	-i	-i
Dative/Locative	-i	-ima
Instrumental	-i/ju	-ima
Vocative	-i	-i

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[edit] External links

• Serbian Declension