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When writing a Polish last name, do you have an "i" for men and "a" for women. I'm not sure. |
Travel Info When writing a Polish last name, do you have an "i" for men and "a" for women. I'm not sure. Travel Tips In some cases - yes, for example Tomasz Kowalski and Anna Kowalska, but that's because the surname "Kowalski" is treated as if it was an adjective and that's why you get "a" for female gender and "i" or "y" for male. It usually is true with names ending in "-ski" or "-cki". But with most cases the surname would stay the same, Tomasz Nowak and Anna Nowak. Or Tomasz Materla and Anna Materla. As far as first names go - all names ending with "a" are for females. Source(s): I'm Polish Other Travel Tips You are correct. I'm not sure it is now done in 2006. The "a" at the end of a Polish last name usually means a female. I don't think that it would change. My last name is Chicanowicz and so was my grandmother's and my great grandmother's. Some Polish names, like Krzak, Walesa, and Kosciuszko, do not have gender specific endings and are not declined as adjectives as names like Lubomirski or Czarnecki are. Thus, these names take adjectival endings depending on the sex of their possessor. Ladies have the nominative singular ending of "a" (Lubomirska, Przezdziecka, Sobieska (yes, actress LeeLee Sobieski's last name doesn't work in Polish, although it is a famous one). Men maintain the "i" ending in nominative singular (Lubomirski, Sobieski, Poniatowski, Jurkowski, etc). Names that end such will be declined grammatically and thus, difficult to recognize for a foreigner. For example, to express the thought I was at the Sobieski's (Ja bylem U Sobieskich). Or "that is Sobieski's car" (To jest samochod Sobieskiego). The common thought about names is that those with "ski" endings are descended from nobility...I don't know about that, although there does seem to be some truth to it looking at the names of the famous nobles. Isn't Polish fun! |
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