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The adjective matches the subject or the predicate article to which it is ascribed. If it describes two singular nouns or one dual noun, the adjective should be in the dual. If it describes a plural or one singular and one non-singular noun, the adjective should be in the plural.
"Slovenian" for the adjective and "Slovene" for the noun. If there are two users, one of which contributes the adjective "Slovenian" and the other the noun "Slovene", this means that the third form of consistency has been established. If one user contributes the adjective "Slovene" and the other the noun "Slovenian", then the second form of ...
Slovene nouns retain six of the seven Slavic noun cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, and instrumental. There is no distinct vocative; the nominative is used in that role. Nouns, adjectives, and pronouns have three numbers: singular, dual, and plural. Nouns in Slovene are either masculine, feminine, or neuter gender.
Many forms of the noun dȃn 'day' have two stems, a shorter one with only the consonants dn-, and a longer one dnẹ̑v-. The longer stem declines as a regular o-stem, while the shorter one has a unique set of endings not shared with any other noun. The formal, most appropriate declension, is a mix of both (the forms in brackets are colloquial):
Archive 4; Archive 5; Leaving this aside, as I can find many notable organizations that use either Slovene or Slovenian both as an adjective and a noun and some use Slovenian as an adjective and Slovene as a noun, I am now nevertheless more in favor of Slovenian both as an adjective and a noun, after having found two interesting and independent web pages.
It is so because it can be sufficiently well demonstrated that common users use Slovenian as an adjective and Slovene as a noun, but on the other side it is really hard (and impossible with the sources that we currently have) to prove that one or the other form is preferred etymologically or linguistically. Neither of the references provided is ...
A heated and long-running dispute has occupied this and other pages regarding the relative merits of the terms Slovene and Slovenian as both nouns and adjectives referring to Slovenia and its people. Various historical, etymological, cultural, aesthetic, and logical arguments can be made to support the "correctness" of either term.
Verbs have two stems. The present stem forms the base for all forms of the present indicative and the imperative, as well as the present participles. The infinitive stem forms the infinitives, supine, gerund, and past participles. Stem is then followed by the form suffix, e. g. -ti for long infinitive, -l for past active participle and -i for ...