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Most of the Proto-Indo-European declensional classes were retained, with the exception of the consonant-stems, which were gradually falling out of use, being replaced by other, more productive classes. | Most of the Proto-Indo-European declensional classes were retained, with the exception of the consonant-stems, which were gradually falling out of use, being replaced by other, more productive classes. | ||
Carpathian nouns have three grammatical categories: [[w:Grammatical gender|gender]] (masculine, feminine, common and neuter), [[w:Grammatical number|number]] (singular, dual and plural) and seven cases: | Carpathian nouns have three grammatical categories: [[w:Grammatical gender|gender]] (masculine, feminine, common and neuter), [[w:Grammatical number|number]] (singular, dual and plural) and seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative and vocative with only three different case forms being distinguished in the dual number. | ||
==Accent classes== | ==Accent classes== | ||
All Carpathian nouns belong to one of the three accent classes: | All Carpathian nouns belong to one of the three accent classes: | ||