vakuum → vo vakuu -i Used for: Masculine inanimate nouns ending in a soft consonant (c, č, ď, dz, dž, j, ľ, ň, š, ť, ž), e.g. ovládač ("remote") → o ovládači ("about the remote"), tŕň → v tŕni Feminine nouns ending in a soft consonant or a soft consonant followed by a, e.g. vôňa → o vôni, kosť ("bone") → o kosti ("about bone") Feminine nouns ending in -ia or -ea, e.g. Mária → na Márii, Andrea → v Andrei Neuter nouns ending in -e or -, e.g. srdce → pri srdci -í used for neuter nouns ending in -, e.g. vysvedčenie → na vysvedčení -ovi used for masculine animate nouns, e.g. chlap → o chlapovi, hrdina → po hrdinovi -om used for masculine and neuter singular adjectives: pekný/pekné → o peknom -ej used for feminine singular adjectives and feminine nouns ending in -á: pekná gazdiná → na peknej gazdinej -m used for masculine animate nouns following the kuli pattern (being most names in -i, -y etc.), e.g. Harry → o Harrym -och used for masculine nouns in plural, e.g. malí chlapi → o malých chlapoch -ách used for plural feminine and neuter nouns, e.g. ženy ("women") → o ženách ("about women"). There are variations: -ach used when the preceding vowel is long or a diphthong (ia, ie, iu, ô), e.g. lásky → v láskach, dielo → pri dielach -iach used after soft consonants, e.g. schopnosť → o schopnostiach, srdce → v srdciach -ích / -ých Used for plural adjectives of all genders, e.g. malé obchody ("small shops") → v malých obchodoch ("in small shops"), with the variation: -ich / -ych when the preceding vowel is long: rýchle autá ("fast cars") → o rýchlych autách ("about fast cars") See also Slovak declension for declension patterns for all Slovak grammatical cases, including locative. Polish There are several different locative endings in Polish: - Used for singular nouns of all genders, e.g. niebo → niebie. In a few cases, the softening indicated by i has led to consonant alternations: brat → bracie rzeka → rzece noga → nodze rower → rowerze piekło → piekle For a complete list, see Polish hard and soft consonants. -u Used for: Some masculine singular nouns, e.g. syn → synu, dom → domu, bok → boku, brzuch → brzuchu, worek → worku*, nastrój → nastroju*, deszcz → deszczu, miś → misiu, koń → koniu, Poznań →