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Masculine nouns and adjectives are divided between animate and inanimate nouns. Animate nouns are nouns that represent a living or mythological being (Francọ̑z 'French', rȁk 'crab', dȗh 'ghost') and words that originally had that meaning, but have a different one now (vipȃvec (a type of wine), francọ̑z 'monkey wrench', Oriọ̑n 'Orion').
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.
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.
The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents. A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, " Italian cuisine " is "cuisine of Italy".
Stative participles decline as regular hard adjectives with fixed accent and are compared periphrastically. Examples: Videl sem. (I saw.) Ob tej novici je prebledela. (Upon [hearing] the news, she became pale.) The š-participle is also an adjectival participle, and is rarely used in modern Slovene and mostly as an adverb.
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.
Èn declines as a regular adjective, with three genders èn, êna, êno and full case forms. There is also a longer form of the masculine nominative singular, êden, which is used when the numeral does not modify a noun directly. Èn has plural forms, which occur with nouns used only in the plural form (pluralia tantum), but no dual forms.
The plural for 5 or more of something is actually the genitive plural form. It's like this in all Slavic languages as far as I know. The reason is that originally the numbers 5 to 10 were nouns, while the numbers 1 to 4 were adjectives. So it's a bit like how you might say a pair of things, you'd also say 5 of things.