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Most nouns and adjectives of the 2nd Declension in er are declined like ‘magister’: liber, book; Alexander, Alexander; noster, our; piger, lazy; crēber, crowded; and many others.

These words differ from ‘puer’ only in dropping the e in all the Cases except the Nominative and the Vocative.

It will have been seen that the form of the adjective depends on the form of the noun to which it belongs. Thus we have had:

It is clear, then, that there are many more forms of the