User:Stríðsdrengur/Appendix:Upper Sorbian declension

Nouns
Upper Sorbian nouns are inflected for three numbers: singular (sing.), dual (du.) (used when referring to two objects), plural (pl.) and for seven cases: nominative (N), genitive (G), dative (D), accusative (A), instrumental (I), locative (L) and vocative (V).

Gender
Each Sorbian noun is of one of the following three genders: masculine (masc.), feminine (fem.) and neuter (neut.). Masculine nouns are furtherly divided into virile (denoting masculine human beings), animate (denoting animals) and inanimate (denoting things, phenomena and abstracts) sub-genders.

Grammatical gender does not always coincide with the biological sex and nouns are assigned to particular genders based on a mix of semantic (based on the noun's meaning) and formal (based on the noun's endings) criteria.

The formal criterion states that, in general:

 * nouns with nominative singular (the basic form) ending in a consonant and with genitive singular ending in -a (more rarely in -u) are masculine, eg.: