{"id":71,"date":"2008-07-17T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T15:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=71"},"modified":"2014-06-10T13:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T13:11:35","slug":"polish-adjectives-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/polish-adjectives-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Adjectives, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last article, while talking about \u201cgrand beaver dwelling places<\/a>\u201d (oh yes, we talk about some strange things here) I briefly touched on the subject of adjectives. So I suppose it\u2019s only fitting to finally give those adjectives a post of their own.<\/p>\n

Polish adjectives get a bad rap among foreign speakers, but totally undeservedly so. Compared to other parts of speech, adjectives in Polish are practically a cake-walk. It\u2019s true that they are marked for number and gender, but so are adjectives of many other languages. And just like in other languages, some adjectives can be used as nouns. And just like in other languages, they also have comparative and superlative forms. So far, so good, nothing unusual here.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s different in Polish is that our adjectives decline. Oh yes, they do. Luckily, they decline in a more or less regular manner.<\/p>\n

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But before we get to declensions, let\u2019s first see how these adjectives change according to gender and number.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s start with an easy example \u2013 g\u0142odny<\/strong> (hungry)<\/p>\n

The form you see listed in a dictionary is normally a singular, masculine adjective in its nominative case, such as:<\/p>\n