Learn to recognise and use feminine nouns in nominative and accusative case.
The accusative case is used when an object or a person (a noun) is directly receiving the action or is the object of an action.
For example "Jaz vidim avto" (I see a car) - the object "car" is receiving the action of "seeing".
We can help determine the case by using the following questions:
| Case | Helper Question | Example |
| Nominative | Who or what (is here)? | Mama je tu. (Mother is here) |
| Genitive | Who or what (is not here)? | Mame ni tu. (Mother is not here) |
| Dative | To whom or to what (do we give)? | Mami dam darilo. (I give gift to mother.) |
| Accusative | Whom or what (do we see)? | Jaz vidim mamo. (I see mother) |
| Locative | Next to whom or what (is)? | Pri mami je otrok. (The child is with the mother.) |
| Instrumental | With whom or with what (is)? | Z mamo je oče. |
Further examples of when accusative is used:
| Helper question | Example | Translation |
| Whom or what do I see? | Vidim pomarančo. | I see an orange. |
| What do I eat? | Jem večerjo. | I'm eating dinner. |
| What do I read? | Berem knjigo. | I'm reading a book. |
| What do I have? | Imam sestro. | I have a sister. |
Most feminine nouns which end with -a in nominative are declensed by using 1st feminine noun declension paradigm.
Here are some examples:
| Nominative | Accusative | Translation | Notes |
| mama | mamo | mother | |
| sestra | sestro | sister | |
| zelenjava | zelenjavo | vegetables | zelenjava is singular noun in Slovenian |
| knjiga | knjigo | book | |
| miza | mizo | table | |
| soba | sobo | room | |
| teta | teto | aunt | |
| kava | kavo | coffee | |
| banana | banano | banana |