Level: Beginners (A1/A2)
Category: Polish Cases
Accusative Case in Polish (Biernik) Table of contents
Accusative case introduction in Polish
The Accusative/biernik case is a very commonly used one in Polish.
When to use accusative case in Polish
It is used for things like "I like you", "I love Zuzanna", "I am buying bread" and many more situations
One of the easiest ways is to learn what verbs use the accusative case (see below)
Verbs that use the accusative case in Polish
| English | Polish |
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| To bake | piec |
| To beat | bić |
| To build | budować |
| To buy | kupić |
| To buy | kupować |
| To carry | nieść |
| To carry (/wear) | nosić |
| To close | zamykać |
| To eat | jeść |
| To explain/translate | tłumaczyć |
| To have | mieć |
| To keep | trzymać |
| To kiss | całować |
| To know | znać |
| To like | lubić |
| To love | kochać |
| To make/do | robić |
| To paint | malować |
| To read | czytać |
| To spend | spędzać |
| To take | brać |
| To welcome | witać |
| To write | pisać |
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Remember to switch to [gentitive] for negation
If a sentence (that used accusative) is made negative (by adding 'never', "don't", etc) then switch from accusative to Genitive
Noun and Adjective Conjugation for Accusative case: Singular
| Alive | Not alive | ||
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| Masculine | Adjective | -ego | -y
-i after words that end in -k or -g
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| Noun | -a |
No change for masc singular non animated words
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| Feminine | Adjective | -ą | |
| Noun | -ę | ||
| Neuter | Adjective | -e
sometimes -ie after words that end in -k or -g
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No change for plural accusative neuter words
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Noun and Adjective Conjugation for Accusative case: Plural
Adjectives in Accusative case: -e (or -ie if it ends in k or g)
Nouns in Accusative case:
Masculine or Feminine words: -y (or -i if it ends in g or k).
Neuter: -a
Accusative plural is the same as [nomanitive] plural!