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Michelle Batalo Mills:
All very valuable responses. Thank you. It has been 35 years or so since I had a few years of latin and....like most things I realize as an adult...I wish I had paid more attention at the time. :) But thank you for the link to the quick reference on Serbian cases of declination...it answers my question.
Also very good tip on the search value. I will do that now.

Nebo:
In Serbian language there’s 7 declination cases of nouns, so the toponyme Mrzlo Polje is declined like this:

Nom: Mrzlo Polje
Gen: Mrzlog Polja
Dat: Mrzlom Polju
Accus: Mrzlo Polje
Voc: Mrzlo Polje
Instr: Mrzlim Poljem
Loc: Mrzlom Polju

Michelle Batalo Mills:
Amazing. All of you that are bilingual and multilingual are impressive. I am lucky to be able to use Spanglish to order at a mexican restaurant.

So a male name (normally not ending in A) would end in -a to show genitive case to show origin.
As in Batalo, Damjan (only a male's name) to show the father of would change it to genitive Batalo, Damjana BOZO
Because Bozo originated/is of from Damjan ?

I hope that is the correct interpretation.

But that is only if the father's name ends in a consonant. I was googling to understand the exception on names like Rade, Marko etc. Then there is no change to the nominative form to indicate genitive case?

I referenced www.studyserbian.com they do have a nice pdf that illustrates a table of noun gender and declinations. But other than saying that Rade, Marko would look like Class 1 neuter but are really Class 1 male...they don't indicate how to change these types of names (male names that end -e or end - o) to genitive.

НиколаВук:

--- Цитат: Michelle Batalo Mills Август 23, 2020, 11:11:43 поподне ---Amazing. All of you that are bilingual and multilingual are impressive. I am lucky to be able to use Spanglish to order at a mexican restaurant.

So a male name (normally not ending in A) would end in -a to show genitive case to show origin.
As in Batalo, Damjan (only a male's name) to show the father of would change it to genitive Batalo, Damjana BOZO
Because Bozo originated/is of from Damjan ?

I hope that is the correct interpretation.

But that is only if the father's name ends in a consonant. I was googling to understand the exception on names like Rade, Marko etc. Then there is no change to the nominative form to indicate genitive case?

I referenced www.studyserbian.com they do have a nice pdf that illustrates a table of noun gender and declinations. But other than saying that Rade, Marko would look like Class 1 neuter but are really Class 1 male...they don't indicate how to change these types of names (male names that end -e or end - o) to genitive.

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Genitive case of Rade would be "Rada" or "Radeta", depending on whether you're an Ijekavian (Rada) or Ekavian (Radeta) speaker. Genitive case of Marko is always "Marka".

Селаковић:

--- Цитат: НиколаВук Август 23, 2020, 11:23:00 поподне ---Genitive case of Rade would be "Rada" or "Radeta", depending on whether you're an Ijekavian (Rada) or Ekavian (Radeta) speaker. Genitive case of Marko is always "Marka".

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"Radeta" is not Ekavian per se. "Rada" is still the norm in my Ekavian hometown of Valjevo, for example. :D

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