Lithuanian declension: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added
No edit summary
mNo edit summary
Line 1:
{{Short description|Declensions in the Lithuanian language}}
{{cleanup lang|date=April 2019}}
The [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]]'s has a [[declension]] system is similar to declension systems in ancient [[Indo-European languages]] such as [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]], [[Latin language|Latin]] or [[Ancient Greek language|Ancient Greek]]. It is one of the most complicated declension systems among modern Indo-European and modern European languages.{{Citation needed|reason=2010 Feb 3|date=February 2010}}
 
Traditionally, scholars count up to ten [[case (linguistics)|case]] forms in Lithuanian. However, at least one case is reduced to [[adverb]]s and certain fixed expressions and another is extinct in the modern language. So the official variant of Lithuanian has eight cases; moreover, the illative case can be replaced with the locative case. The main cases are: