to use grammatical vocatives. Third declension The third declension affects feminine nouns ending with a consonant. The vocative is formed by appending the suffix -i to the nominative (reč: reči "word", noć: noći "night"). Slovak Until the end of the 1980s, the existence of a distinct vocative case in Slovak was recognised and taught at schools. Today, the case is no longer considered to exist except for a few archaic examples of the original vocative remaining in religious, literary or ironic contexts: In everyday use, the Czech vocative is sometimes retrofitted to certain words: Another stamp of vernacular vocative is emerging, presumably under the influence of Hungarian for certain family members or proper names: Ukrainian Ukrainian has retained the vocative case mostly as it was in Proto-Slavic: {| class="wikitable" ! colspan="3" |Masculine nouns ! colspan="3" |Feminine nouns |- !Nominative !Vocative !Translation !Nominative !Vocative !Translation |- |бог boh |боже bože |god |матуся matusja |матусю matusju |minnie |- |друг druh |друже druže |friend |неня nenja |нене nene |nanny |- |брат brat |брате brate |brother |бабця babcja |бабцю babcju |granny |- |чоловік čolovik |чоловіче čoloviče |man |жінка žinka |жінко žinko |woman |- |хлопець chlopec''' |хлопче chlopče|boy |дружина družyna|дружино družyno|wife |- |святий отець svjatyj otec|святий отче svjatyj otče |Holy Father |дівчина divčyna |дівчино divčyno |girl |- |пан pan |пане pane |sir, Mr. |сестра sestra |сестро sestro |sister |- |приятель pryjatel|приятелю pryjatelju |fellow |людина ljudyna |людино ljudyno |human |- |батько bat'ko |батьку bat'ku |father | | | |- |син syn |сину synu |son | | | |} There are some exceptions: It is used even for loanwords and foreign names: It is obligatory for all native names: It is used for patronymics: Latin In Latin, the form of the vocative case of a noun is often the same as the nominative. Exceptions include singular non-neuter second-declension nouns that end in -us in the nominative case. An example would be the famous line from Shakespeare, "Et tu, Brute?" (commonly translated as "And you, Brutus?"): Brute is the vocative case and Brutus would be the nominative. Nouns that end in -ius end with -ī instead of the expected -ie. Thus, Julius becomes Julī and filius becomes filī. The shortening does not shift the accent so the vocative of Vergilius is Vergilī, with accent on the second syllable even though it is short. Nouns that end in -aius and -eius have vocatives that end in -aī or -eī