{"id":476,"date":"2009-02-10T17:47:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T21:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=476"},"modified":"2009-02-10T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T21:47:28","slug":"genitive-case-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/genitive-case-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Genitive Case, part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas asked what happened to audio files with pronunciation that I used to provide on this blog. I will be reunited with my own computer and microphone on March 10th and then <strong>pliki d\u017awi\u0119kowe<\/strong> (audio files) will be back. And I do plan to go back and provide them for all the posts where they\u2019re currently missing. This will be <strong>du\u017co roboty<\/strong> (a lot of work) but I know it will help you a lot, too.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, let\u2019s answer Michael\u2019s question: what is the difference between <strong>domy<\/strong> and <strong>dom\u00f3w<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, time to review noun declensions, isn\u2019t it? <strong>Domy<\/strong> is the nominative plural form of \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d (house, home, building).<br \/>\nSo, <strong>jeden dom<\/strong> (one house, home, building) and <strong>dwa domy<\/strong> (two houses, homes, buildings).<\/p>\n<p>Remember the genitive case (<strong>dope\u0142niacz<\/strong>)? We talked about it <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/cases-in-polish-genitive\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/genitive-case-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/genitive-case-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And why am I bringing it up again? Because it just so happens that \u201c<strong>dom\u00f3w<\/strong>\u201d is the genitive case of \u201c<strong>domy<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dom<\/strong> is a masculine noun with what we call in Polish a \u201chard stem.\u201d And such masculine hard-stem nouns take the ending \u2013<strong>\u00f3w<\/strong> in the genitive plural form.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominative (<strong>mianownik<\/strong>) &#8211; <em>answers to questions: <strong>kto? co?<\/strong> (who? what?)<\/em> \u2013 singular \u2013 <strong>dom<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Genitive (<strong>dope\u0142niacz<\/strong>) \u2013 <em>answers to questions: <strong>kogo? czego?<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 singular \u2013 <strong>domu<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now in plural:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominative \u2013 <strong>domy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Genitive \u2013 <strong>dom\u00f3w<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u0141adne domy tutaj macie.<\/strong> \u2013 Nice houses you have here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nie widz\u0119 \u017cadnych \u0142adnych dom\u00f3w w tej okolicy.<\/strong> \u2013 I don\u2019t see any nice houses in this area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And as you can see, the adjective \u201c<strong>\u0142adny<\/strong>\u201d (nice) declines along with the noun it describes \u2013 <strong>dom<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u0142adny<\/strong> (<em>adj., fem:<\/em> <strong>\u0142adna<\/strong>, <em>neuter:<\/em> <strong>\u0142adne<\/strong>, <em>pl. personal:<\/em> <strong>\u0142adni<\/strong>, <em>pl. all others:<\/em> <strong>\u0142adne<\/strong>) \u2013 pretty, nice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas asked what happened to audio files with pronunciation that I used to provide on this blog. 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