the only -er- masculine case. Typology In the table below the numbers of nouns, received by the statistical analysis of the data in the Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian language (Dabartinės Lietuvių kalbos žodynas; the fourth issue, 2000), are given grouped by the patterns of declension and accentuation. The data does not include verbal abstracts ending in -imas, -ymas, -umas (for instance, metimas 'a throwing; a throw' from mesti 'to throw'), 18,700 in total (12,000 of the first accentuation paradigm, 6,000 of the second), because they can be made from any verb. There may be some inaccuracies due to some specific features, for instance, there are homonyms which differ only in an accent: síetas 1 – sieve (related to sijóti – to sieve), siẽtas 2 – tether, leash (related to siẽti – to tie, bond; saĩtas – bond; leash), and the possibility exists that in some of such cases the two words were taken as one. Words with a suffix -men-, are attributed to the third declensional pattern in these tables, but they are of the fifth, the singular (can be used for all, but is not usual for all) is -uo: for example, ãšmenys 3b – blade, sė́dmenys 3a – buttocks, nates, sėdmuõ , nẽšmenys 3b – silts, sediments carried by a water stream. The singular instrumental is -imi, like in the third declension, while for masculine words of the fifth declension the proper ending is chosen to be -iu; but -imi can also be chosen for the words of the fifth declension. {| class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.1em; text-align: right; background: #FFFFFF;" |- | width=50| || || width=30| 1 || width=30| 2 || width=30| 3 || width=30| 3a || width=30| 3b || width=30| 34a || width=30| 34b || width=30| 4 || width=30| alt. || width=30| all |- | align=left| -as || rowspan=5| || 1907 || 3499 || 90 || 35 || 393 || 48 || 5 || 340 || 94 || 6411 |- valign=top | align=left| -j-as || rowspan=2| 921 || rowspan=2| 16 || || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2| || 4 || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2| 944 |- | align=left| -ias || 1 || 2 |- | align=left| -is || 3085 || 2188 || || || || || || || 22 || 5295 |- | align=left| -ys || || || 16 || 192 || 581 || 48 || 25 || 282 || 102 || 1246 |- valign=top | rowspan=3