Nouns

Nouns are words that represent objects, creatures, qualities, states, feelings, ideas, places, etc. Names of people and localities are also nouns.

GenderIn Latvian, there are two options in the grammatical category of gender: masculine or feminine.DeclensionIn Latvian, nouns belong to one of the six declensions, which may be labeled using the Roman numbers I-VI or using the Arabic numbers with a dot: 1. deklinācija through 6. deklinācija.CaseThere are seven cases in Latvian. In general, each case correspond to the given ending of the word, but sometimes different cases have the same endings.Consonant alternationConsonant alternation happens in the stem of the words if the ending requires its palatalization.People and professionsThe names of people and professions often form pairs of both masculine and feminine nouns. It leads to different endings and declensions of the corresponding words.