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-u ending in dative of masc. sing. nouns

Polonius3Threads: 963 Posts: 4,551 Joined: Apr 11, 08	Nov 29, 09, 12:05 / #
The few masc. nouns, usually the oldest and most basic ones in meaning, that have -u in dative singular are: ojciec, brat, Bóg, pies, diabeł and czart. Know of any others? What about kot? One sometimes hears both kotu and kotowi.

LorencThreads: 6 Posts: 30 Joined: May 13, 08	Nov 29, 09, 13:01 / #
I can't tell you from personal experience but I can report what my grammar book and other sources say. "A concise Polish Grammar" by Ronald F. Feldstein lists the words you mentioned and the following: chłop/chłopu, chłopiec/chłopcu, pan/panu, lew/lwu, kot/kotu, ksiądz/ksiądzu, świat/światu. So yes, kot too belongs to this group of Celownik=-u words. This agrees with the massive table to be found here http://free.of.pl/g/grzegorj/gram/en/deklin_stat.html . They also mention there człek, but the PWN-Oxford dictionary says both forms -u and -owi are possible for this word.

MoonlightingThreads: 60 Posts: 307 Joined: Apr 28, 07	Edited by: Moonlighting Dec 4, 09, 15:21 / #
"kotu" is correct. There is already a thread on PF here in which I listed names ending in -u.

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