Talk:Polish/Feminine noun declension

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Hey the page is very informative, concise, clear and encouraging :), keep the great job, and here's just an idea for the declensions patterns:

except for fem. nouns in -sc, the following are universal, also for nouns like 'mezczyzna':

CASE   SG ENDING      PL ENDING Nom       -a            * Gen       -i or -y**    - with stem o-ó Dat       *             -om Acc       -ę (pron. e)  * Ins       -ą (pron. om) -ami Loc       *             -ach

Now, * stands for the following rule: If plural ends in -y then Dat and Loc take -ie plus softening where applies (kobiety, kobiecie, kobiecie). If plural ends in -i then Dat and Loc take -e plus softening where applies (rzeki, rzece, rzece) If plural ends in -e then Dat and Loc take -i or -y** as in Gen (ulice, ulicy, ulicy).

In other words, Dat sg and Loc sg follow the Nom pl.

Now, ** the -i or -y also depends regularly on the preceding consonant, can't recount now which ones.. however, most foreigners pronounce y as i anyway, and are perfectly understood, so it should hardly matter.

yours, Konrad Jaglak