(man)). Another feature is the merging of classical accusative and nominative forms in 1st and 3rd declension: They are only distinguished in Demotic by their definite articles, which continued to be declined as in Ancient Greek. This was especially common with nouns of the third declension, such as (hometown, fatherland) which became nominative ? ???????, accusative ??? ??????? in Demotic.

A result of this regularization of noun forms in Demotic is that most native words end in a vowel, s ?, or n ?. Thus,