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You can support my website and my Youtube Channel by buying my grammar book on Amazon. In that book I have clearly explained, how to create different forms of noun depending on the case, number, and gender.
After reading this book you will be able to decline any noun in the Polish language. This book also contains exercises with answers, which will help you practice what you learn.
In this article I summarized all the noun endings in all three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), two numbers (singular and plural) and seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative and vocative). All these endings are presented in tables at the end of this article.
Important information
Be aware that Polish language has a lot of exceptions. I combined all these rules and endings as a guide to help you wrap your head around the declension, but there are many nouns that don't follow these rules. Every ending has a link to its corresponding article where you can find tables with examples. There are also exceptions at the end of these tables. If you find an interesting example of a noun that doesn't follow the rules, please let me know and I will add it to the list of exceptions.
Apart from these tables I also created a tool for practicing the declension. You can choose which gender, number and case you want to practice and it will generate a test for you.
When multiple endings are available, refer to the additional comments to determine which ending to use. To access these comments click or hover over any ending or click any footnote number. The first will open a tooltip with the comment. The second will scroll you below the table to the corresponding footnote. Choose what best works for you.
Each comment has a See examples button. Click it to navigate to the article about the specific ending. These articles present many examples of nouns and other useful information.
If you want to learn about the usage of each Case, you can refer to these articles:
Before you jump into the tables, here are some additional remarks that you should know:
Some nouns may have irregularities in their stem during declension.
The
∅
no ending
symbol indicates that there is no ending.
The
'
softening
symbol indicates that this ending requires softening of the stem. For more information see the article on softening .
How to soften the stem?
How to use the
y
i
ending?
Orthography rule
Some masculine nouns use feminine endings.
And finally I present to you the tables with all the endings. Some cases share the same endings. You will see it presented like this:
=
Nominative
. It means that endings are the same as in Nominative Case of the same number (singular or plural). If you want to see full list of endings, instead of the case names click the toggle button in the top left corner of each table.
(click the toggle button in the top left corner to expand endings)
Masculine Nouns Endings
Case
Singular Number
Plural Number
Nominative
∅
a
y
i
e
owie
anie
Genitive
u
a
ów
y
i
Dative
owi
u
om
Accusative
∅
a
=
Nominative
=
Genitive
Instrumental
em
iem
ami
mi
Locative
'
softening
e
u
ach
Vocative
=
Locative
=
Nominative
(click the toggle button in the top left corner to expand endings)
Feminine Nouns Endings
Case
Singular Number
Plural Number
Nominative
a
i
∅
y
i
e
Genitive
y
i
∅
y
i
Dative
'
softening
e
y
i
om
Accusative
ę
∅
=
Nominative
Instrumental
ą
ami
mi
Locative
=
Dative
ach
Vocative
o
u
i
y
i
=
Nominative
(click the toggle button in the top left corner to expand endings)
