How can you tell which noun belongs to which declension class? Follow these basic rules for classifying nouns in declension classes: i If the noun ends in a consonant, most probably it’s a Class I masculine noun (e.g. прозор ‘window’). ii) If the noun ends in vowels –o, or -e in singular nominative case, it’s a Class I neuter noun (e.g. сел-п ‘village’, пољ-e ‘field’).

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  • How can you tell which noun belongs to which declension class? Follow these basic rules for classifying nouns in declension classes: i If the noun ends in a consonant, most probably it’s a Class I masculine noun (e.g. прозор ‘window’). ii) If the noun ends in vowels –o, or -e in singular nominative case, it’s a Class I neuter noun (e.g. сел-п ‘village’, пољ-e ‘field’). However, there are some male proper names that end in these vowels, and are classified as Class I masculine noun (e.g. Марко, Раде), not neuter nouns. So, semantics wins! iii) If the noun ends in –a in singular nominative case, it’s a Class II noun, and these nouns are feminine. There is a small group of male-denoting nouns that also end in –a, (e. g, судија ‘judge’, Стева – male name, газда ‘master, landlord’, господа ‘gentlemen’). But grammatically, these nouns act as feminine. So, forget about their semantics. iv) The Class III nouns are all feminine and end in a consonant, just like Class I nouns. How then to distinguish Class I masculine nouns from Class III feminine nouns? Class III nouns typically denote abstract objects (e. g. љубав ‘love’, смрт ‘death’, болест ‘illness’, младост ‘youth’).
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  • How can you tell which noun belongs to which declension class? Follow these basic rules for classifying nouns in declension classes: i If the noun ends in a consonant, most probably it’s a Class I masculine noun (e.g. прозор ‘window’). ii) If the noun ends in vowels –o, or -e in singular nominative case, it’s a Class I neuter noun (e.g. сел-п ‘village’, пољ-e ‘field’).
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  • Serbian nouns
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