Declension

Slovenian expresses with its endings not only number and gender, but also relationships between the different words in the sentences (which in English are expressed by means of prepositions). There are a total of six forms for these relationships – which are called cases.

They have the following names: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative and instrumental. (the first four cases are as in Latin).
For the most part nouns are declined according to the following four patterns:

Singular						Plural
miz-a	-o	-e	-i	-i	-o	miz-e	-e	–	-am	-ah	-ami
nit-	–	-i	-i	-i	-jo	nit-i	-i	-i	-im	-ih	-mi
korak-	–	-a	-u	-u	-om	korak-i	-e	-ov	-om	-ih	-i
mest-o	-o	-u	-u	-u	-om	mest-a	-a	–	-om	-ih	-i
Dual
miz-i	-i	–	-ama	-ah	-ama
nit-i	-i	-i	-ima	-ih	-ima
korak-a	-a	-ov	-oma	-ih	-i
mest-i	-i	–	-oma	-ih	-i

1. Some nouns have instead of –jo and –mi the endings –ijo and –imi. Instead of –im –ih –ima some have –em –eh -em: kostem.
2. If the noun refers to an animate being, it has the accusative ending -a (človek, človeka).
3. Some nouns have the ending –u: most mostu.
4. Many nouns lengthen the stem with –ov in the plural: sinovi; these have in the G. Pl. the ending: sinovi – sinov.

Adjectives and most pronouns are declined like this:
	Singular
Masculine:	lep-	– /-ega	-ega	-emu	-em	-im
Feminine:	-a	-o	-e	-i	-i	-o
Neuter	-o	– /-ega	-ega	-emu	-em	-im
	Plural
Masculine:	lep-i	-e	-ih	-im	-ih	-imi
Feminine:	-e	-e
Neuter	-a	-a
	Dual
Masculine:	lep-a	-a	-ih	-ima	-ih	-ima
Feminine:	-i	-i
Neuter	-i	-i
Personal Pronouns are declined:
	Singular
1. Person:	jaz	mene/me	mene/me	meni/mi	meni	menoj/mano
2. Person:	ti	tebe/te	tebe/te	tebi/ti	tebi	teboj/tabo
Reflexive:	—	sebe/se	sebe/se	sebi/si	sebi	seboj/sabo
3. Person
Masculine:	on	njega/ga	njega/ga	njemu/mu	njem	njim
Feminine:	ona	njo/jo	nje/je	njej/ji	njej	njo
Neuter	ono	njega/ga	njega/ga	njemu/mu	njem	njim
	Plural
1. Person
Masculine:	mi	nas/nas	nas/nas	nam/nam	nas	nami
Feminine:	me
2. Person
Masculine:	vi	vas/vas	vas/vas	vam/vam	vas	vami
Feminine:	ve
3. Person
Masculine:	oni	njih/jih	njih/jih	njim/jim	njih	njimi
Feminine:	one
Neuter	ona
	Dual
1. Person
Masculine:	midva	naju/naju	naju/naju	nama/nama	naju	nama
Feminine:	medve
2. Person
Masculine:	vidva	vaju/vaju	vaju/vaju	vama/vama	vaju	vama
Feminine:	vedve
3. Person
Masculine:	onadva	njiju/ju	njiju/ju	njima/jima	njiju	njima
Feminine:	onidve
Neuter
The interrogative and relative pronouns kdo, kdor and kaj, kar are declined like this:
“who”	kdo	koga	koga	komu	kom	kom
“one who”	kdor	kogar	kogar	komur	komer	komer
“what”	kaj	kaj	česa	čemu	čem	čim
“what”	kar	kar	česar	čemur	čemer	čimer

Nekdo or marsikdo are declined as kdo; nihče and vsakdo as kdor (e.g.nikogar) etc.
As kaj are also declined: nekaj, marsikaj, as kar also nič (Gen. ničesar).
The other pronouns are declined like adjectives, but ta and ves are exceptional: instr. Sg. Is tem, vsem; in the plural they are declined like this:

Masculine: ti te teh tem teh temi
Feminine: te

Numerals are declined as adjectives, cardinal numbers like this:

Value 2:
Masculine: dva dva dveh dvema dveh dvema
Feminine: dve dve

Value 3:
Masculine: trije tri treh trem treh tremi
Feminine: tri

Value 4:
Masculine: štirje štiri štirih štirim štirih štirimi
Feminine: štiri

Value 5:
Masc./Fem. pet pet petih petim petih petimi