There are seven Latin noun cases, which also apply to adjectives and pronouns.

However, only 12 are commonly used in speech (see Finnish noun cases).

There are two further noun cases in Latin, the vocative and the locative.

There are traditionally considered to be 14 noun cases in Estonian:

When a noun is declined, ten forms are made, two for each of the noun cases.

Czechs typically refer to the noun cases by number and learn them by means of the question to which they are the answer.

Often each preposition can be used with two or more noun cases depending on the sentence).

Venetic had about six or even seven noun cases and four conjugations (similar to Latin).

The table below lists the suffixes for each noun case, with an example next to it.

It has a simple nominal system, contrasting just four noun cases, and not always marking grammatical number in the direct case.