ABSTRACT
The three genders are differentiated in the cardinal numeral ‘one’, i.e. êden/èn (m.), êna (f.), êno (n.) and the ordinal, multiplicative and differential numerals. The cardinal numerals ‘two’, ‘three’ and ‘four’, however, only distinguish gender in the nominative case, where they differentiate masculine on the one hand from feminine/neuter on the other, i.e. dvá (m.), dvé (f./n.) ‘two’; tríje (m.), trí (f./n.) ‘three’; štírje (m.), štíri (f./n.) ‘four’; e.g. dvá študênta ‘two students’; dvé knjígi ‘two books’; dvé mésti ‘two towns’.
