Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Macedonian Noun Templates/reply (4)

I don't really understand which "-e" and "-o" endings you are referring to. Are you talking about the feminine vocative forms? In that case, it's not about the last consonant being soft or hard. The rule is that feminine "-a" nouns have a vocative form in "-o", unless they end in "-ка" or "-ица" (as suffixes) and contain three or more syllables, in which case they have a vocative form in "-e". If you can make Lua work with that, all right, but otherwise, I'm fine with just dealing with this manually (i.e. choosing the "-o" vs. "-e" vocative template for each feminine "-a" noun).

By the way, the Macedonian vocative forms don't really follow the same rules as other Slavic languages. For example, in BCS, for masculine nouns, the ending is "-u" if the final consonant is palatal or "-e" if it's hard. In Macedonian, it's somewhat random and most masculine nouns simply have "-у" whereas the ones that do have "-e" can very often have "-у" too.

Yes, the table is somewhat incomplete. "море" does indeed become "мориња", but "јајце" becomes "јајца" (although "јајциња" is sometimes heard too). Furthermore, all neuter "-e" nouns that end in "-ие" "-ње" (the gerund suffix), or "-је" (the collective suffix) have plurals in "-a". My table is also incomplete in that it doesn't include anything for irregular nouns such as "камен", "рака", "нога", "дете" or "око". Also, it doesn't account for the intrusive "j" that appears and disappears (I believe you understand under what circumstances this happens), e.g. "боја" > "бои" (loss) and "искушение" > "искушенија" (appearance).