Otrozhia tabla (Child’s blackboard) from 1580, by Adam Bohorič, is a fragmentarily preserved short catechism, which on the basis of the ten commandments presents the elementary truths of religion. In the preserved fragment there are 15 nouns: beseda (word), Bog (God), gospod (Lord, sir), ime (name), nadloga (trouble), nebesa (heaven), oča (father), odgovor (response), pild (image), praznik (holiday), prediga (sermon), reč (thing), voda (water), zemlja (earth), and znamenje (sign). Their declension is presented in comparison with Bohorič’s grammar from 1584 and the general tendencies in declension of nouns in the Slovene literary language of the 16th century. These are publications by the same writer with different messages.
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