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Nominative Plural: Click here for Note to Instructors
Masculine Non-Virile Nouns
by E. Małachowska-Pasek
and E. Wampuszyc

Masculine non-virile nouns (which include animate nouns such as animals-- ie. pies, kot, koń-- whose grammatical gender is masculine) follow the same rules as feminine nouns.

Below you will find links to explanations and exercises on the masculine non-virile nominative plural of nouns. Based on the examples, rewrite the sentences with nouns in the nominative plural. Some of the words may be unfamiliar to you, but if you follow the examples you can’t go wrong! Where asked, try to deduce the rule for the different masculine virile nominative plural endings.

Hint! Review hard consonants, soft consonants, hardened consonants, virile, non-virile

 

Masculine Non-Virile Nouns...

Group I

…with stems ending in a hard consonant
(except -k, -g)

Group II

… with the stem ending in -k, -g

Group III

… with stem ending in soft or hardened consonants (including -l, -j)

Nominative Plural




 

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