Language/Polish/Grammar/Plural

Plural construction

To construct the plural of a noun, you have to identify the ending in the singular and then refer to this table:

Singular	Plural	Example
-ka, -ga	-ki, -gi	noga - nogi (leg - legs)
-ca, -ea, -ia, -ja, -la, -ża (-rza)	-ce, -ee, -ie, -je, -le, -that (s)	Rose - roses (rose - roses)
- [Everything else] + a	- [Everything else] + y	torba - torby (bag - bags)

Remember that rz sounds like ż

• burza - burze (storm - storms)

To form the plural of neutral nouns it is necessary to change the -o , the -e or the -um to -a

• window - windows
• museum - museums

The plurals of nouns ending in -ę are irregular and we will see them later ...

To pluralize masculine nouns, look at the last letter and they follow similar rules to feminine nouns.

Singular	Plural	Example
-k, -g	-ki, -gi	bok - boki (side - sides)
-c, -j, -l, -ż (-rz)	-ce, -i, -le, -że (-rze)	garage - garages (garage - garages)
-ć, -ń, -ś, -ź	-you, -no, -sie, -zie	koń - konie (horse - horses)
-[everything else]	- [everything else] + y	las - lasy (forest - forests)