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The | The first animate declension was the most commonly used declension. For most animate nouns, gender was predetermined, which is why it only applies to masculine and feminine. | ||
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! {{smallcaps|nom}} | ! {{smallcaps|nom}} | ||
| (n) | | (n) | ||
| ''- | | ''-y'' | ||
| (r) | | (r) | ||
| ''-u'' | | ''-u'' | ||
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! {{smallcaps|gen}} | ! {{smallcaps|gen}} | ||
| ''-eas'' | | ''-eas'' | ||
| ''- | | ''-ys'' | ||
| ''-es'' | | ''-es'' | ||
| ''-ou'' | | ''-ou'' | ||
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The second animate declension was the later used addition to the system for a minority of feminine nouns that ended with ''n'' instead of a vowel. For the most part, the endings are very similar to the primary feminine declensions, because they developed directly from said declensions to work more smoothly with a sonorant as the final phoneme. | |||
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