Other noun types: stvar, tata, ime, dijete

Besides grad, žena and selo, four small groups keep coming up in texts.

case	f. ending in a consonant: stvar	m. in -a: tata	n. in -me: ime	n. in -e (-et-): dugme
N	stvar	tata	ime	dugme
G	stvari	tate	imena	dugmeta
D / L	stvari	tati	imenu	dugmetu
A	stvar	tatu	ime	dugme
I	stvari / stvarju	tatom	imenom	dugmetom
plural N / G / D-I-L	stvari / stvari / stvarima	tate / tata / tatama	imena / imena / imenima	dugmad (collective)

Feminines ending in a consonant (stvar, noć, ljubav, radost, kost, so / sol): almost everything in -i. In the instrumental, -ju causes sound changes: ljubav → ljubavlju, radost → radošću, noć → noću (“at night”).
Masculines in -a (tata, kolega, sudija, Mirza): declined like žena, but the adjective stays masculine: dobar tata, naš kolega.
Neuters in -me (ime, vrijeme, sjeme) add -en-: vrijeme → vremena. Neuters in -e for young beings or small objects (dijete, tele, dugme) add -et-: dijete → djeteta.

Na kraju vremena — at the end of time. Kako se zove tvoje dijete? — What is your child's name?

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