Third Declension Nouns
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This page details the declension of all nouns in the third declension. What is a declension?
The Third Declension
Gender: Masculine, feminine and neuter. Genetive Ending: -is
The following are tables of the endings for third declension nouns.
Please see the notes for this declension for important qualifiers and info.
The first examples are
AARRGH... PLEASE COME BACK SOON... I AM STILL TRYING TO FIND OUT HOW DICTIONARIES ETC INDICATE I STEMS
Notes and Further Info
- Masculine second decl. nouns ending in -us in the nominative, like servus above, take
the endings -us, -e in the nom. and voc. as in the tables. Nouns not ending thus in the nom
take no endings in these two cases singular. All other forms take endings.
An example is puer, -i, boy. Since it does not end in -us, it declines as follows:
Nom and voc sg: puer. All other forms (including nom and voc pl) are formed normally.
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