Appendix:Slovak declension pattern hrdina

Slovak

Declension pattern hrdina

pattern hrdina m, noun

hrdin stem

Singular

• nom hrdin-a
• gen hrdin-u
• dat hrdin-ovi
• acc hrdin-u
• loc hrdin-ovi
• ins hrdin-om

Plural

• nom hrdin-ovia
• gen hrdin-ov
• dat hrdin-om
• acc hrdin-ov
• loc hrdin-och
• ins hrdin-ami

Usage

This pattern is typically used by masculine animate nouns that end with -a or -o, that is those that describe a person.

Words ending with -o usually have the genitive and accusative ending -a, e.g. dedo— deda. Only Slovak family names keep the genitive and accusative -u, e.g., Vančo—Vanču, although some Slovak family names can take either genitive and accusative endings, e.g., Krasko can become either Krasku or Kraska. Foreign family names use the genitive and accusative -a, e.g., Ševčenko—Ševčenka (a Ukrainian family name), or Picasso—Picassa.

Other masculine patterns

• chlap
• dub
• stroj