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The first declension - includes nouns of the feminine gender with the nominative case singular ending - а, -я (наука, земля), and some group of nouns of the masculine gender and the common case (сшльного роду) (Микола, 1лля, голова, суддя).
The second declension - includes the biggest part of nouns of the masculine and the neuter gender. Only those nouns of the masculine gender which have the final hard consonant or softened consonant and those having the ending -й, -о (робтгник, ключ, день, чай, батъко) belong to this declension. Among the neuter gender nouns this declension includes all the nouns ending in -о, -е, -я (except those that acquire the suffixes -ят, -ен in indirect cases), the latter usually have the doubling of the final consonant of the stem (озеро, дерево, поле, бажання, обличчя).
The third declension - includes all the nouns of the feminine gender with the hard or the soft final consonant (тч, любое, тть, радютъ) and the noun мати, which in indirect cases acquires the suffix -ер (матерг).
The fourth declension - includes the nouns of the neuter gender with the endings -а, -я, denoting the names of little according to their age creatures/beings or some minute things as well as the noun гм 'я. In indirect cases these nouns have the suffix -ат, -ят and the noun ж 'я has the suffix -ен: теля - теляти, лоша - лошати, ж 'я -теш.
The peculiar feature in the system of declensions of modern Ukrainian nouns is the dative case, which, being the analytical form, creates the common paradigm of the noun alongside with other synthetic forms. This case form always has a preposition of place на or в in its structure and a special form of a noun bound with it.
Due to such richness of case endings the noun in Ukrainian is always distinctly expressed from the morphological point of view and the meaning of its many forms is easily determined even beyond the sentence limits, that is why the importance of syntactic means in the grammatical expression of the noun is not a substantial one.