Why/How these names have different grammatical endings: Marija - Natalija? Or do they have the same endings in Dative case? Could somebody give me all 6 singular case endings for these two names for women, please.
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Nom: Мария Наталья
Gen: Марии Натальи
Dat: Марии Наталье
Acc: Марию Наталью
Inst: Марией Натальей
Prp: Марии Наталье
The endings differ indeed: Мария belongs to declension 1-7a while Наталья belongs to 1-6a
Note that both names have complementary forms (Ма́рья and Ната́лия), accordingly, which do decline similarly to Наталья and Мария (Наталия and Мария both belong to 1-7a; Наталья and Марья both belong to 1-6a).
Before the orthography reform of 1917, both words ended in iѣ in both dative and prepositive.
answered May 22, 2013 at 18:11
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Interestingly enough, all those endings are completely identical if diminutive version of each name is looked at, namely Маша and Наташа.– AnvarMay 27, 2013 at 2:32