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16 Feminine proper nouns follow the same rule as feminine common nouns.

After what has been previously said concerning the nouns, it will be found easy to understand the declination of adjectives, whose modifications of gender, number, and case are regulated by the same rules as apply to nouns.

Before proceeding to explain the use of adjectives in relation to nouns substantive, a few words must be said concerning the derivation of the feminine gender from the masculine.

The masculine gender, when it ends with a consonant, turned into the feminine by the addition of ă; as—

Those ending with u or ŭ change that vowel into ă:

A few of those ending in ŭ preceded by e, change that ŭ into a long in the feminine: