Strigo wrote:b) How many cases does Lithuanian have? I only know three of them.
There are seven cases: nominative, genetive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, vocative.
I take the table you started.
NOM - GEN - DAT - ACC - INS - LOC - VOC
Masculine
brol
is - brolio - broliui - brolį - broliu - brolyje - broli ("brother")
daikt
as - daikto - daiktui - daiktą - daiktu - daikte - daikte ("thing")
sūn
us - sūnaus - sūnui - sūnų - sūnumi - sūnuje - sūnau ("son")
Feminine
dien
a - dienos - dienai - dieną - diena - dienoje - diena ("day")
gėl
ė - gėlės - gėlei - gėlę - gėle - gėlėje - gėle ("flower")
pil
is - pilies - piliai - pilį - pilimi - pilyje - pilie ("castle")
Most of the words ending in -is are masculine, but some are feminine, like
pilis and
moteris ("woman").
There are words ending in -uo, like
sesuo ("sister") and
šuo ("dog")... I'm not sure if their declension is called irregular, but at least it's very difficult to remember. And so is
duktė ("daughter"). I can post their declensions later if needed.
I checked in my grammar table that everything I wrote here is correct. I'm afraid I won't be able to post all the grammar tables here for you - it would take a lifetime
. But I can give you the nominative plural for the words mentioned above:
brol
is - brol
iai, daikt
as - daikt
ai, sūn
us - sūn
ūs, dien
a - dien
os, gėl
ė - gėl
ės, pil
is - pil
ys.