or zoological terms are exceptions (e.g. , literally "cat wild", ) as is the naming of Holy Spirit () in a majority of churches. Word order in Slovak is relatively free, since strong inflection enables the identification of grammatical roles (subject, object, predicate, etc.) regardless of word placement. This relatively free word order allows the use of word order to convey topic and emphasis. Some examples are as follows: . = That big man opens a store there today. ( = that; = big; = man; = there; = today; = opens; = store) – The word order does not emphasize any specific detail, just general information. . = That big man is today opening a store there. – This word order emphasizes the place ( = there). . = Today over there a store is being opened by that big man. – This word order focuses on the person who is opening the store ( = that; = big; = man). . = The store over there is today being opened by that big man. – Depending on the intonation the focus can be either on the store itself or on the person. The unmarked order is subject–verb–object. Variation in word order is generally possible, but word order is not completely free. In the above example, the noun phrase cannot be split up, so that the following combinations are not possible: . . ... And the following sentence is stylistically infelicitous: . (Only possible in a poem or other forms of artistic style.) The regular variants are as follows: Morphology Articles Slovak, like every major Slavic language other than Bulgarian and Macedonian, does not have articles. The demonstrative pronoun (fem: , neuter: ) may be used in front of the noun in situations where definiteness must be made explicit. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns Slovak nouns are inflected for case and number. There are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, and instrumental. The vocative is purely optional and most of the time unmarked. It is used mainly in spoken language and in some fixed expressions: mum (nominative) vs. mum! (vocative), , dad (N) vs. , dad! (V), Mr., sir vs. sir (when addressing someone e.g. in the street). There are two numbers: singular and plural. Nouns have inherent gender. There are three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Adjectives and pronouns must agree with nouns in case, number, and gender. Numerals