This section deals with Greek's first declension, as it relates to feminine nouns.
Nouns are either masculine, feminine, or neuter.
The gender of a noun is constant and never changes, regardless of the content of the phrase containing it. Unlike verbs, though, nouns also have case , which change depending on their position and use in a sentence, and serve to indicate how the noun is functioning in the phrase. Descriptions of the five noun cases are outlined in the previous section . Originally, all such nouns ended in a long a , and thus used the first set of a -based endings. In the Attic dialect, the a gradually came to be replaced by h , and the second set of h -based endings came into use.