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6.34 Feminine Nouns of the Second Declension

Please make sure you read through Croy Lesson 6.34 carefully. When you learned the second declension endings in Lesson 4, all the nouns that you learned were masculine or neuter. The masculine nouns ended in ος and the neuter noun ended in ον.

In this lesson, you have two nouns in the vocabulary which are feminine nouns of the second declension, and they also end in ος - but because they are feminine, they take the feminine forms of the definite article and of any adjectives that are used with them.

It is very important that you become familiar with these words, because they are very common. Here is a chart showing the two words, with ἔρημος done in the singular, and ὁδός in the plural. Notice how the endings vary, because the article and adjective have endings built with alpha and eta, but the nouns are taking second declension endings based on omicron and omega.

Singular:

Nom.

μικρά ἔρημος ἡ μικρὰ ἔρημος
Gen.

τῆς

μικρᾶς ἐρήμου τῆς μικρᾶς ἐρήμου
Dat.

τῇ

μικρᾷ ἐρήμῳ τῇ μικρᾷ ἐρήμῳ
Acc.

τήν

μικράν ἔρημον τὴν μικρὰ ἔρημον

Plural:

Nom.

αἱ

καλαί ὁδοί αἱ καλαὶ ὁδοί
Gen.

τῶν

καλῶν ὁδῶν τῶν καλῶν ὁδῶν
Dat.

ταῖς

καλαῖς ὁδοῖς ταῖς καλαῖς ὁδοῖς
Acc.

τάς

καλάς ὁδούς τὰς καλὰς ὁδούς

 

 


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