Nouns.
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In the plurals of oko ‘the eye’ and ucho ‘the ear’ we find dual forms mixed up with the others.
| Oko, ‘the eye.’ | ||||
| Plural. | ||||
| N. | oczy | V. | oczy | |
| G. | oczu | I. | oczami (dual, oczyma) | |
| D. | oczom (dual, oczyma) | L. | w oczach. | |
| A. | oczy | |||
| Ucho, ‘the ear.’ | ||||
| Plural. | ||||
| N. | uszy | V. | uszy | |
| G. | uszu | I. | uszami (dual, uszyma) | |
| D. | uszom (dual, uszyma) | L. | uszach. | |
| A. | uszy | |||
Niebo, ‘the sky,’ has for the nominative plural niebiosa, and for the locative w niebiosach or w niebiesiech, '‘in the skies.’'
Ziele, ‘a herb,’ formerly zioło, changes in all the cases of the plural eł into oł: n. zioła, '‘herbs,’' g. zioł, d. ziołom, &c.
There was also in the old Polish language a dual of the verbs, as is still found in Slovenish and Lusatian-Wendish, but it is now obsolete.
Diminutives are formed in Polish in the following manner:—The final letter of the stem is changed, c into cz, ch into sz, g into ż, k into cz, t into c; thus, ulica, ‘a street,’
