NOUN DECLENSIONS

LOOK AT THE GENITIVE SINGULAR ENDING AND THE GENDER TO DETERMINE THE DECLENSION

FIND THE STEM BY DROPPING THE ENDING FROM THE GENITIVE SINGULAR FORM

(The Nominative Singular form must be memorized as part of the dictionary entry)

	1^st	2^nd m	2^nd n	3^rd m/f	3^rd n	4^th m/f	5^th
GEN SING	Stem + ae	Stem + i	Stem + i	Stem + is	Stem + is	Stem + us	Stem + ei
DAT SING	Stem + ae	Stem + o	Stem + o	Stem + i	Stem + i	Stem + ui	Stem + ei
ACC SING	Stem + am	Stem + um	= Nom	Stem + em	= Nom	Stem + um	Stem + em
ABL SING	Stem + a	Stem + o	Stem + o	Stem + e (i*)	Stem + e (i)	Stem + u	Stem + e
NOM PL	Stem + ae	Stem + i	Stem + a	Stem + es	Stem + a (ia)	Stem + us	Stem + es
GEN PL	Stem + arum	Stem + orum	Stem + orum	Stem + um (ium)	Stem + um (ium)	Stem + uum	Stem + erum
DAT PL	Stem + is	Stem + is	Stem + is	Stem + ibus	Stem + ibus	Stem + ibus	Stem + ebus
ACC PL	Stem + as	Stem + os	Stem + a	Stem + es (is*)	Stem + a (ia)	Stem + us	Stem + es
ABL PL	Stem + is	Stem + is	Stem + is	Stem + ibus	Stem + ibus	Stem + ibus	Stem + ebus

( ) = i-stem * alternate forms

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