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Rh {|
 * colspan=2 |, a hag.
 * | SINGULAR.
 * | PLURAL.
 * | Nom. & Acc. || ||
 * | Gen. || ||
 * | Dat. || ||
 * | Voc.
 * }
 * | Gen. || ||
 * | Dat. || ||
 * | Voc.
 * }
 * | Voc.
 * }
 * }
 * }

Like nouns of 1st declension, the vowels of the nom. sing. are sometimes changed when the final consonant is attenuated in the genitive singular.

The following are the chief changes:—

In words of one syllable change into  (but, a hen, becomes ); in words of more than one syllable change  into.