Editing Slovak declension (section)

=== The Masculine Gender===
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="3" |&nbsp;
! colspan="4" |Animate
! colspan="4" |Inanimate
|-
! colspan="2" | Ends in anything except -a
! colspan="2" | Ends in -a 
! colspan="2" | Ends in a hard/neutral consonant 
! colspan="2" | Ends in a soft consonant 
|-
! singular
! plural
! singular
! plural
! singular
! plural
! singular
! plural
|- 
! Nominative
| chlap
| chlapi
| hrdina
| hrdinovia
| rowspan="2" | dub
| rowspan="2" | duby
| rowspan="2" | stroj
| rowspan="2" | stroje
|- 
! Accusative
| rowspan="2" | chlap-'''a'''
| rowspan="2" | chlap-'''ov'''
| rowspan="2" | hrdin-'''u'''
| rowspan="2" | hrdin-'''ov'''
|- 
! Genitive
| dub-'''a'''
| dub-'''ov'''
| stroj-'''a'''
| stroj-'''ov'''
|- 
! Dative
| rowspan="2" | chlapovi
| chlapom
| rowspan="2" | hrdinovi
| hrdinom
| dubu
| dubom
| stroju
| strojom
|- 
! Locative
| chlapoch
| hrdinoch
| dube 
| duboch
| stroji
| strojoch
|- 
! Instrumental
| chlapom
| chlapmi
| hrdinom
| hrdinami
| dubom
| dubmi
| strojom
| strojmi
|}

There is also a 5th paradigm for foreign nouns ending in .-i, -y, -e, -í, -é, -ě, -ä  (for example '''pony''', kuli, Tököli, Goethe, Krejčí, abbé, Poupě) and foreign personal names ending in -ü, -ö (for example Jenö), which goes as follows:
*Sg: N: pony, G: ponyho, D: ponymu, A: ponyho, L and I: ponym;
*Pl: like hrdina.

Masculine '''animal nouns''' are declined like chlap in the singular, but in plural usually like dub (if they end in a hard or neutral consonant) or like stroj (otherwise).

'''Notes on chlap:'''
* For the nouns ending in a vowel (for example  -o, -u) the vowel is not part of the stem, but the ending in N sg: for example dedo has G / D sg...  deda / dedovi etc. (not *dedoa / *dedoovi etc.)
* many nouns lose an e / o / i from the stem in all cases except N sg (for example vrabec – vrabca);
* in some short nouns, the -e- changes its position in all cases except N sg (for example žnec – ženca);
* some nouns ending in -k / -ch change their final /k/ or /ch/ into /c/ and /s/, respectively in N pl (for example žiak – žiaci);
* words ending in -h use the N pl ending for hrdina instead (such as vrah - vrahovia, súdruh - súdruhovia)
* most Latin and Greek nouns ending in -us, -as, -es lose it in all cases except N sg (for example génius – génia; but for example fiškus – fiškusa).

'''Notes on hrdina:'''

''' Notes on dub:'''
* many nouns lose e / o / i / í / i.e. / á from the stem in all cases except N sg and A sg (for example výmysel – výmyslu, chrbát – chrbta, ohníček – ohníčka, dnešok – dneška, ocot – octu )
* some Greek and Latin nouns in -us, -es, -os lose the -us / -es / -os in all cases except N sg and A sg (e.g. komunizmus – komunizmu; but e.g. autobus – autobusu, cirkus – cirkusu);
* some Slovak words lose the acute or the i / u from a diphthong in all cases except N sg and A sg (for example mráz – mraza, chlieb – chleba, vietor – vetra (here along with loss of o), stôl – stola; but bôr – bôru);
* in G pl, some nouns change the a / e / i / o / u (without an acute or a preceding i) in the stem to á / i.e. / í / ô / ú (Krompachy – Krompách, Žabokreky – Žabokriek, Poniky – Poník, sloha – slôh) or in some cases to ia / iu (for example čas – čias, Margecany – Margecian), unless the [[Slovak orthography#Rhythmical rule|rhythmical rule]] prevents it, i.e. the preceding syllable in the stem already contains a vowel with an acute or a diphthong (for example Hájniky – Hájnik);
* in L sg, nouns ending in g / k / h have -u rather than -e.

''' Notes on stroj:'''
* many nouns lose the e / o / i / í / i.e. / á in all cases except N sg and A sg (for example ''{{lang|sk|marec}}'' – ''{{lang|sk|marca}}'', ''{{lang|sk|delenec}}'' – ''{{lang|sk|delenca}}'', ''{{lang|sk|veniec}}'' – ''{{lang|sk|venca}}'', ''{{lang|sk|deň}}'' – ''{{lang|sk|dňa}}'', ''{{lang|sk|stupeň}}'' – ''{{lang|sk|stupňa}}'', ''{{lang|sk|lakeť}}'' – ''{{lang|sk|lakťa}}'');
* some nouns lose the acute or the i/u from a diphthong in all cases except N sg and A sg (for example ''{{lang|sk|dážď}}'' – ''{{lang|sk|dažďa}}'', ''{{lang|sk|nôž}}'' – ''{{lang|sk|noža}}'');
* in G pl, geographical names in pl. (plurale tantum) change the a / e / i / o / u (without an acute or a preceding i) in the stem to á / é / í / ó / ú (for example {{lang|sk|Tlmače}} – {{lang|sk|Tlmáč}}) or in some cases to ia / i.e. / iu / ô (for example {{lang|sk|Ladce}} – {{lang|sk|Ladiec}}) in the G pl, unless the [[Slovak orthography#Rhythmical rule|rhythmical rule]] prevents it, i.e. the preceding syllable in the stem already contains an acute or a diphthong.