Accusative Plural

I know only the masculine animate and the feminite nouns only change but do they have plural endings or do they take the genitive plural endings?

Masculine nouns take the genitive endings and the feminine take the nominative plural

Znam tego pana-I know that man singular accusative case
Nie znam tego pana I do not know that man in the genitive singular case
Znam tych panów I know those men in the plural accusative case
Nie znam tych panów I do not know those men in the genitive plural case




Znam tę dziewczynę I know that girl in the singular accusative case
Nie znam tej dziewczyny I do not know that girl in the genitive singular case
Znam te dziewczyny I know those girls in the plural accusative case
Nie znam tych dziewczyń I do not know those girls in the genitive plural case

Osioł is masculine. Not to such a degree as horses, donkeys are animate, so...

Nom sing: Osioł
Nom plur: Osły
Gen plur: Osłów
Acc sing: Osła
Acc plur: Osły ???

Nom sing: Oślica
Nom plur: Oślice
Acc sing: Oślicę
Acc plur: Oślice

Have I got the accusitive plural (in bold, to make it easier to spot) right or wrong?
Help!

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Polish:Masculine_noun_declension

good luck :D

Thanks.

A very helpful forum member helped me out with some of this.
Then my even more helpful 'teacher' changed a few things. Now I have a feeling it changed from being right to being wrong.

edit (well, actually some additional stuff added a few minutes after the rest of it):
It seems my ''teacher'' was taking Osioł as being person-masculine rather than just animate-masculine.

Am I really going to get all of this or should I just learn a load of endings, just stick one on the end of the word and hope for the best?

Hm, would it not maybe be (Acc sing) Osioł, (Acc pl) Ośły?
er, I'll have to go and look this up now lol, homework

well, i always hope for the best while speaking English, and it not always comes out correctly... life is brutal ....



osłów??? i would go with osły....

Polishgirltx's link is quite good (probably).

I'm sticking with osła for the singular (for now).
As in:

"Przyprowadź osła!"
"Nie!"
"Przyprowadź osły!"
"Nie! Nie! Nie!"

Does that look like the start of a great work of Polish literature or just the ramblings of a retard?


My "teacher" finds 'a'/'an' and 'the' very difficult, so he either picks one at random, ignores both of them, or (his current favourite) he uses the word 'some'.

I am the edit-addict. I just had to put inverted commas around the word teacher.

"Osłów" is used only when talking about people, otherwise "osły" should be used.

and there's only one Osioł here who's actually a person.
As I claim to be an actual donkey, osły is my word of the day.

Hmm, a bit of both really :)
Osioł is not listed in my grammar book. so it must be reasonably regular in it's declension, (hence my suggestions above)

what we need is...., a polish person to assist us!

here I come :)
I think we already had the full declination of donkey/jenny in some other thread (including the differences resulting furhter: RJ_cdn's example).
Anyway Osiol's examples (post #3) are correct.


The only problem is what RJ_cdn mentioned



The word "osioł" is quite popular for calling names in Polish, it means either 1/ someone very stubborn or 2/ someone a little retarded (or at least having trouble with understanding simple things) - with such meanings the word "osioł" behaves like normal "person"-noun

Examples with Dative case (Celownik)
Daj siana osłu (Give the donkey some hay)
Tłumaczyłem temu osłowi już dwa razy a on nadal nie potrafi pomnożyć 3 przez 7.
(I was explaining it to that retard already twice and he still cannot multiply 3 with 7).

Dziękie - now i know my donkeys in Polish...

Dzięki

Dziękuję.

I've already forgotten most of the little that I learnt.

Lol, thanks - this is a word I always spell in correctly!