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Rh We have seen that in the plural all masculine nouns end in ĭ. The plural bearing the article will be shown by adding a second ĭ, whereby the former ĭ becomes long i:

Note.—Copil, ‘boy,’ has the plural copiĭ, by the omission of l; the articled noun will be of course copiiĭ; thus fiŭ, ‘son,’ fiĭ, ‘sons,’ fiiĭ, ‘the sons.’

The article is expressed in the feminine by an affixed a, but how this is done depends upon the final letter of the noun itself.

A noun ending in ă will change ă into a:

Those ending in e do not change this e, but add the letter a to it; thus—