ABSTRACT

The dialogue provides you with two other ways of making a polite request:

Proszę o pański (pani) May I have your passport paszport. please?

to do something.

frequently used, and therefore an important case in Polish. Here are the genitive endings of nouns and adjectives together with their nominative and accusative forms – first, masculine and neuter genders:

Masculine Neuter Nom. mój brat kot ten teatr stare miasto Acc. mojego brata kota ten teatr stare miasto Gen. mojego brata kota tego teatru starego miasta

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• masculine animate nouns (people –brat brother / animals – kot 'cat in the genitive have the same -a ending as in the accusative; ’ neuter nouns also take this ending.