THIRD DECLENSION

To the third declension belongs masculine nouns which ends with -us in singular nominative and few old feminine nouns: dzirnus, pelus, ragus. The case endings for third declension nouns are given in following table:

  Nom.  Gen.   Dat.   Acc.  Loc.  Voc. 
sing.  -us,   -us  -um  -u  -û  -us 
plur.  -i  -u  -iem  -us   -os  -i 

Example

Nominative  liet-us  liet-i 
Genitive  liet-us  liet-u 
Dative  liet-um  liet-iem 
Accusative  liet-u  liet-us 
Locative  liet-û  liet-os 
Vocative  liet-us  liet-i 

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