You have now seen all the case endings of the 1st and 2nd declension nouns. Posted is a summary of those endings in the way they normally appear in grammar books i.e. in the form of a table.
Different grammar books may list these in a different order. However, this is the most common way that they are given, and this pattern also follows the online references given in, for example, wiktionary.
The vocative case only changes with nouns ending in –(i)us in the singular. Therefore, no vocative plural is given since the nominative and vocative plural are always the same.
Look at the colours in the boxes; they show where the same ending is used for more than one case. Also indicated are endings that are common to all nouns.
What the tables show is that there are very few ‘unique’ endings that automatically indicate a particular case. This is why it is crucial to become thoroughly familiar with the case endings and, when reading them in context, to examine sentences carefully in order to identify which case is being used.
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