section_path: Grammar/Nouns
section_name: Nouns
paragraph_text: Nouns
  
  A regular Latin noun belongs to one of five main declensions, a group of nouns with similar inflected forms. The declensions are identified by the genitive singular form of the noun.
  
  There are seven Latin noun cases, which also apply to adjectives and pronouns and mark a noun's syntactic role in the sentence by means of inflections. Thus, word order is not as important in Latin as it is in English, which is less inflected. The general structure and word order of a Latin sentence can therefore vary. The cases are as follows:
  
  Latin lacks both definite and indefinite articles so puer currit can mean either "the boy is running" or "a boy is running".