case means that the word or words can be declined in any case in plural or singular respectively, but Plural genitive means that the second word remains undeclined. Declension Nouns in Lithuanian language have 12 declension paradigms, in scholar grammar corresponding to five declensions which are defined by the inflection in singular nominative and genitive cases. Only few borrowed words, like taksì – taxi, kupė – compartment (in a train), coupe, are not subject to declension rules. {| class=wikitable style="text-align: left;" |- valign=top style="background: #efefef;" | rowspan=2| || colspan=2| Inflection in singular cases || colspan=3 width="300px" | Examples || rowspan=2| Notes |- style="background: #efefef;" | width="80px"| Nominative || width="80px"| Genitive || width="80px"| Nominative || width="80px"| Genitive || width="160px"| Meaning |- valign=top |I || -as, -is, -ys || -o || výrasmẽdistraukinỹskẽlias || výromẽdžiotráukiniokẽlio || man, male; husbandtreetrainroad || Main pattern for masculine nouns. |- valign=top |II || -a, -i1, -ė || -os, -ės || žmonàšviesàvárnapradžiàsáulė || žmonõsšviesõsvárnospradžiõssáulės || wifelightcrowbeginningsun || Main pattern for feminine nouns; few masculine exceptions. |- valign=top |III || -is2 || -ies || móteris3 pilìs avìs dantìs || móteriespiliẽsaviẽsdantiẽs || woman, femalecastlesheeptooth || Rarer; feminine nouns; fewer masculine exceptions. |- valign=top |IV || -us || -aus || žmogùssūnùsmedùsskaĩčius || žmogaũssūnaũsmedaũsskaĩčiaus || man (human being)sonhoneynumber || Rare; masculine nouns. |- valign=top | V || -uo, -ė3 || -en-s, -er-s || vanduõakmuõskaitmuõsesuõduktė̃ || vandeñsakmeñsskaitmeñsseser̃sdukter̃s || waterstonedigitsisterdaughter || Very rare; masculine nouns; four3 feminine; all are suffixed by -en- and -er- . |} There are only two nouns ending in -i: pati 'wife' and marti 'daughter-in-law'. Their declension is the same to the second adjective feminine declension and similar to a second feminine noun palatalized declension. The noun pati is the same to a pronoun pati 'herself; myself ; itself (for feminine nouns)' Exception: petys – shoulder, peties, etc., after this declensional pattern. The third declension is very similar to the fifth declension. Duktė 'daughter' is the only word of the fifth declension, not having an ending uo. A word moteris 'woman, female' often has a genitive móters; the plural genitive of moteris is moterų (not palatalized -ių); it is the only normal form for the fifth declension and one of the two (the main is -ių) for the third. The more two words, obelis – apple tree and dieveris – (older) brother-in-law, are the same declensional case as moteris, but dieveris, being masculine possibly has a -iu. Dieveris is also