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 ﻿Neuter.

Singular. Plural.

N. královo slovo, the king's word  králova slova G. králova slova králových slov

D. králova slovu královým slovům

A. královo slovo králova slova

' V. královo slovo králova slova

I. královým slovem královými slovy

L. v králové slově v králových slovich.

If the noun ends in a vowel the termination -ův, -ova, -ovo is added; e. g. vůdce, the leader; vůdcův, of the leader.

Feminine nouns make the possessive adjective in -in, -ina, -ino, which are affixed to the stem, .the final vowel being cast away, as .macecha, the step-mother; macesin, belonging to the step-mother (favourite Slavonic mutation of ch into s. See p. 3). From adjectives of this description the proper names in Russian have been formed; but in Bohemian they are commonly diminutives, as Jificěk (lit. Little George), or parti- cipial forms ending in -/, as Pospňil.

The accusative of the singular in masculine adjectives applied to inanimate beings is like the nominative; applied to animate it is like the genitive. In the nominative plural the masculine adjective, when it is used with inanimate things, ends in -e, as zeleni duby, the green oaks. Before -i in the plural of the adjectives h is changed into z, ch into s, k into c, and r into f. Adjectives ending in -sky and -cký change into -šli and -Hi in the plural, as Stavové čeští z te' přiciný, sesedle se v některém poctu v Praze, the Bohemian Estates from that cause having assembled in a certain number in Prague.

The adjectives used as substantives are declined like silný, as poddaný, the subject; hospodský, the innkeeper; polesný, the forester. Feminine: Panská, the chambermaid; krejčová, the female tailor. Neuter: dobré, good; mostové, toll paid to go over a bridge.