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I found special case declinations for the following types of nouns - but yet the tables didn't give example words.

Therefore I challenge you to give an example of ... (deviating declination of accusative plural give in brackets)

  • A first declination male animate noun ending on -ий (-иев instead of -ия)
  • A second declination animate noun ending on -ия (-ий instead of -ии)
  • A third declination female animate noun ending on -ь (-ей instead of -и)

Addendum

Inanimate examples for the three special cases would be (in same order)

  • санаторий
  • Россия
  • ночь
arney
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    What tables do you use? Two first cases seem not to match the definitions in this Wikipedia article. As for third declination: мать, дочь, выпь, выхухоль... – Artemix Sep 03 '14 at 13:24
  • @Artemix these are from the most extensive table I have, which was taken from a textbook I sadly cannot retrace. Therefore I will add the deviations to my question. – arney Sep 03 '14 at 13:31
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    Found a note in the wiki that the first and second declination are numbered differently in different textbooks (the first may become second and the second - the first). – Artemix Sep 03 '14 at 13:37
  • @Artemix Kudos for the strange animals, they match, but мать and дочь are irregular anyway. – arney Sep 03 '14 at 13:38
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  • Евгений, Валерий. 2. Мария, Виктория, София. 3. мышь, блядь, тварь.
    • – Yellow Sky Sep 03 '14 at 15:14
  • Why do you call these patterns ‘very rare’, ‘deviating’, etc? They are perfectly regular and common. – Dmitry Alexandrov Sep 03 '14 at 15:29
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    Why ask for accusative plural when you essentially want genitive plural? Genitive has more patterns than you'd expect but they are mostly regular. For animate nouns, well, гений, Мария, мышь (-ия is more frequent for abstractions, not so much for people unless it is names). – Shady_arc Sep 03 '14 at 18:46
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    @Shady_arc The genitive plural endings are the same for animate and inanimate nouns. It is the accusative plural where the deviation happens: inanimate sticks to nominative plural, while animate takes genitive form. – arney Sep 04 '14 at 20:52
  • @DmitryAlexandrov Well, the cases I was asking here are at least rare in the sense of "rarely listed/explained". And they are deviating because they decline just like their inanimate friends, except their ending in accusative plural deviates. – arney Sep 04 '14 at 20:54
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    I do not understand how it is any different from the words' generic behaviour. All nouns in plural have Accusative=Nomintive if they are inanimate and Accusative=Genitive if they are animate (note that in singular Acc=Nom if the noun is nominalised neuter adjective like "животное", which is, at least, unexpected). The exact pattern of genitive plural is irrelevant. – Shady_arc Sep 04 '14 at 22:52