|| -i || -ūs || -ios || gražùs, gražì, (gražù) – pretty, beautiful; malonùs, malonì, (malonù) – pleasant; |- |rowspan=2| III || -is || -ė || -iai || -ės || varìnis, varìnė – copper; laukìnis, laukìnė – wild; |- | -is || -ė || -i || -ės || dìdelis, dìdelė – big; dešinỹs, dešinė̃ – right; kairỹs, kairė̃ – left. |} All the adjectives (except most -inis type adjectives) can have pronominal (definite) forms that cannot acquire the neuter form: {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;" |-valign=top style="background: #efefef;" |rowspan=2| Declension |colspan=2| Singular inflection |colspan=2| Plural inflection |rowspan=2| Examples |- style="background: #efefef;" |Masculine || Feminine || Masculine || Feminine |- | I || -(i)asis || -(i)oji || -ieji || -(i)osios || šaltàsis, šaltóji – the cold; šlapiàsis, šlapióji – the wet; |- | II || -usis || -ioji || -ieji || -iosios || gražùsis, gražióji – the pretty, the beautiful; malonùsis, malonióji – the pleasant; |- |rowspan=2| III || -is || -ė || -iai || -ės || ― |- | -ysis || -ioji || -ieji || -iosios || didỹsis, didžióji – the big, the great; dešinỹsis, dešinióji – the right; kairỹsis, kairióji – the left. |} The pronominal adjectives historically have developed from the combination of the simple adjectives and the respective pronominal forms jis, ji (he, she), that is, gẽras + jìs = geràsis; an example in locative case (feminine gender): gražiosè + josè = gražiósiose. They have their own separate declension paradigms. Pronominal adjectives have a variety of purposes in modern Lithuanian. One of them is the definitiveness, that is, these adjectives can sometimes act like an equivalent of the definite article in English: Suvalgiau raudoną obuolį – I’ve eaten a red apple; Suvalgiau raudonąjį obuolį – I’ve eaten the red apple. But they are rarely used this way, as demonstrative pronouns serve better for this purpose. Pronominal adjectives often indicate something unique, thus they are usually used with proper names: Juodoji jūra, Vytautas Didysis, Naujoji Zelandija. Another use (and a very common) is scientific terminology: kvapusis mairūnas, dėmėtoji pelėda, standusis diskas etc. In almost all of these cases, a simple adjective can be used, but it will mean a completely different thing: juoda jūra (instead of Juodoji jūra) means any sea that is black (not necessarily the particular sea in Eastern Europe); dėmėta pelėda (instead of dėmėtoji pelėda) means any owl that has dots on its plumage (not necessarily