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37.

Nouns are inflected in five Declensions, distinguished by the final letter (characteristic) of the Stem, and by the case-ending of the Genitive Singular:



Decl. 1 CHARACTERISTIC á GEN. SING. ae
2 o í
3 i or a Consonant is
4 u ús
5 é éí


a. The Stem of a noun may be found, if a consonant stem, by omitting the case-ending; if a vowel stem, by substituting for the case-ending the characteristic vowel.