Template:pl-adecl/documentation

Uses Lua:

• Module:pl-adjective

This template should be used to decline all Polish adjectives.

Usage

Generally, no arguments need to be supplied to the template. For example, for the adjective czarny (“black”):

{{pl-adecl}}

produces

Declension of czarny (hard)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative	czarny		czarna	czarne	czarni	czarne
genitive	czarnego		czarnej	czarnego	czarnych
dative	czarnemu		czarnej	czarnemu	czarnym
accusative	czarnego	czarny	czarną	czarne	czarnych	czarne
instrumental	czarnym		czarną	czarnym	czarnymi
locative	czarnym		czarnej	czarnym	czarnych

The module knows how to decline hard, soft and velar adjectives, as well as irregular pronouns and numerals that decline adjectivally.

Indicators

Indicators can be specified inside of angle brackets to modify the default declension behavior. For example, adjectives with an archaic dative in -u such as polski (“Polish”) and prosty (“simple”) should use <archdat>, e.g. for polski:

{{pl-adecl|<archdat>}}

produces

Declension of polski (velar)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative	polski		polska	polskie	polscy	polskie
genitive	polskiego		polskiej	polskiego	polskich
dative	polskiemu, polsku1		polskiej	polskiemu, polsku1	polskim
accusative	polskiego	polski	polską	polskie	polskich	polskie
instrumental	polskim		polską	polskim	polskimi
locative	polskim		polskiej	polskim	polskich

¹Archaic.

Overrides

You can override any specific form using an indicator <override:value>, where override is the code for a given slot (e.g. nom_f for the nominative feminine singular) and value is the desired value. Use <override:value:value:...> to specify multiple values. The most useful slots to override are probably short, which adds a short form to the adjective, and nom_mp_pers, which overrides the masculine personal (i.e. virile) nominative plural. An adjective using both is wesoły (“happy, merry”):

{{pl-adecl|<nom_mp_pers:weseli.short:wesół>}}

which produces

Declension of wesoły (hard)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative	wesoły		wesoła	wesołe	weseli	wesołe
genitive	wesołego		wesołej	wesołego	wesołych
dative	wesołemu		wesołej	wesołemu	wesołym
accusative	wesołego	wesoły	wesołą	wesołe	wesołych	wesołe
instrumental	wesołym		wesołą	wesołym	wesołymi
locative	wesołym		wesołej	wesołym	wesołych
short	wesół

This also shows that multiple indicators are separated by a period (.).

Decline as if

You can specify that a given term should decline like some other term. This is useful, for example, with short-lemma adjectives and pronouns such as wart (“worth”) and nasz (“our”). For example, for wart:

{{pl-adecl|<decllemma:warty>}}

which produces

Declension of wart (hard)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative	wart		warta	warte	warci	warte
genitive	wartego		wartej	wartego	wartych
dative	wartemu		wartej	wartemu	wartym
accusative	wartego	wart	wartą	warte	wartych	warte
instrumental	wartym		wartą	wartym	wartymi
locative	wartym		wartej	wartym	wartych

Note how the pagename is used for the nominative masculine singular (and the inanimate accusative masculine singular, which is copied from the nominative masculine singular), but the declined forms of the specified lemma are used elsewhere.

Irregular pronouns and numerals

Use the indicator <irreg> to decline irregular pronouns and numerals. For example, for ten (“this”):

{{pl-adecl|<irreg>}}

which produces

Declension of ten (irregular)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative	ten		ta	to	ci	te
genitive	tego		tej	tego	tych
dative	temu		tej	temu	tym
accusative	tego	ten	tę, tą1	to	tych	te
instrumental	tym		tą	tym	tymi
locative	tym		tej	tym	tych

¹Proscribed but much more common.

Note that you can specify the lemma before the indicator if needed. This is especially useful for pronominal terms like czyjś, which declines like czyj followed by a fixed suffix -ś:

{{pl-adecl|czyj<irreg>ś}}

which produces

Declension of czyjś (irregular)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative	czyjś		czyjaś	czyjeś	czyiś	czyjeś
genitive	czyjegoś		czyjejś	czyjegoś	czyichś
dative	czyjemuś		czyjejś	czyjemuś	czyimś
accusative	czyjegoś	czyjś	czyjąś	czyjeś	czyichś	czyjeś
instrumental	czyimś		czyjąś	czyimś	czyimiś
locative	czyimś		czyjejś	czyimś	czyichś

Plural-only pronouns and numerals can be declined the same way, and will automatically change the table format to reflect the plural-only nature of the term. This happens, for example, with dwa:

{{pl-adecl|<irreg>}}

which produces

Declension of dwa (irregular)

		plural
		masculine personal	masculine nonpersonal	feminine	neuter
nominative		dwaj	dwa	dwie	dwa
genitive		dwu, dwóch
dative		dwu, dwom, dwóm
accusative		dwu, dwóch	dwa	dwie	dwa
instrumental		dwoma, dwu		dwiema, dwoma, dwu	dwoma, dwu
locative		dwu, dwóch

Other pronouns of this sort are oba, ile (which has a slightly different-format table), and derivatives of ile such as ilekolwiek.