🎨 Adjectives and gender

Three genders

Every noun is masculine, feminine or neuter, and the adjective must match it. A quick guide to the dictionary form:

A consonant at the end usually means masculine (dom, kot). An -a usually means feminine (woda, książka). An -o, -e or -ę usually means neuter (okno, morze, imię). Exceptions exist, for example mężczyzna (man) and kolega (colleague) are masculine.

Agreement in the nominative

• nowy dom

  a new house (masculine)

• nowa książka

  a new book (feminine)

• nowe okno

  a new window (neuter)

Singular endings of nowy

In the masculine accusative, use nowego for people and animals (widzę nowego kota) and nowy for things (widzę nowy dom).