The higher state educational establishment of Ukraine

The actuality of the topic:
In the system of Latin declensions the third declension is the most widespread
and at the same time difficult for mastering. If in the nouns of the 1-sr, 2-nd, 4-th
and 5-th declensions the gender is determined by the ending of Nom. sing., while
determining the gender of the 3-rd declension nouns it is necessary to know not
only the ending of Nom. sing., but also to take into consideration the typical
endings of the stem in Gen sing., since just these endings are indicators of the noun
gender (salus, salutis f, but ulcus, ulceris n; pes, pedis m, but tabes, tabis f etc.).
While mastering this topic a special attention should be paid to the noun
stem, as the most 3-rd declension nouns have a short stem in Nom. sing., but it
shows itself in full only in Gen. sing.
2. The specific aims:
To know :
−
−
the formal signs of the 3-rd declension nouns;
the peculiarities of writing the 3-rd declension nouns in the vocabulary
(including monosyllabic nouns);
−
−
−
−
−
−
−
−
the rule of finding the stem of nouns;
the typical signs of the consonant type;
the case endings of the consonant type;
the typical signs of the vowel type;
the peculiarities of the case endings of the vowel type;
the typical signs of the mixed type;
the peculiarity of the declining of the mixed type nouns;
the group of nouns which are declined by the consonant type while having
the typical signs of the mixed type.
To know how:
- to distinguish parisyllabic and imparisyllabic nouns;
- to determine the practical stem and the stem type of the 3-rd declension
nouns;
- to decline the nouns belonging to the consonant, vowel and mixed types.
3