Accusative Case

I guess your teacher doesn't want to overwhelm you with too much theory as it can be discouraging, so for now you're OK doing exercises like this (when they say you what adjective/noun case to use), when you master all the 6 case endings (in singular and plural, for all the 3 genders), then the time will come for another level of exercises, where you'll have to decide by yourself what cases are required after a specific verb.

EDIT


There's a large group of feminine nouns ending in a soft consonant (usually -ść, -dź)

for example:
wiadomość (news)
znajomość (knowledge, acquaintance)
podłość (vileness)
doniosłość (importance)
those are usually created from an adjective (wiadomy, znajomy, podły, doniosły)

spowiedź - confession (from the verb spowiadać)
gołoledź
(but niedźwiedź - a bear - is masc.)


Yes, although it's hard to say if those surnames really become adjectives (from the logical point of view), but their declension is identical to adjectives, so grammatically we treat them as adjectives.

This also applies to:
- surnames with -cki/-cka and -dzki/-dzka endings (for example Nowacki, Niedźwiedzka)
- surnames that are "pure adjectives" (fro example Cichy = silent, Czarny = black, Biały = white) although this case is more complicated, Polish laws allow people with surnames that are "pure adjectives" to choose if they want it with normal declension (Maria Czarna, Marii Czarnej, Marię Czarną etc.) or without any declension, then the Nominative male form is used in all cases, also for women, (Maria Czarny, Marii Czarny, Marię Czarny etc.)


Rather not, but there are nouns that follow the adjective declension pattern (for example "uczony" - I'm sure I wrote about it not long ago in one of your threads).

I think I found another Feminine word that ends in a consonant.
NOC.
My dictionary has a -f after it and also gives the masc (nocy) and the neuter (noce).


Can you think of any English equivalents of nouns(?) made from adjectives?


Yes you did. In my 'ACCUSATIVE.Masc/Fem/Neu' thread.
You have been a great help to me.
Thank you.

Woah careful - you are getting confused. Noc is feminine as you say. Therefore it will never by used in a masculine or neuter form. Nocy is not the masc form and noce is not the neuter form - there are no such things as a masc/neuter form of a feminine word.

Your dictionary is probably showing you how to form the genitive and plural.
Each dictionary is different - mine just says "Noc - f, nocy (G. plur)" so I know that nocy is the genitive plural.

As mentioned, best to learn the gender with the word as there are a lot of irregularities.

I guess I know what you meant, but to be precise there's such thing for adjectives of course (they have all 3 gender forms, but the dictionary mentions the masculine only) and for nouns too (of course only for some nouns, basically those that refer to male/female people: lekarz-lekarka, uczeń-uczennica etc. or animals: lew-lwica, osioł-oślica etc.)


Plenty of them :)
There are several different endings (just like in Polish) to create a noun from and adjective, even in the examples I gave earlier 2 of the English words were created that way:

-ness
(adjective vile, noun vileness)
-ence/ance
(adj. important, noun importance)
-ism
(adj. imperial, noun imperialism)
But I don't see why you're asking me about English, I'm definitely not an expert :)

spot on Krzysztof!

Agreed. Perfect explanation (and examples).

I got accused of that once, I say only the boring stay straight

Merged: Adjective/Noun agreement in the accusative?

Insert the correct form of nouns and adjectives.
Oni mają...............[jajko, czekoladowy]
The noun, jajko (egg) is animate. Does this mean the adjective must agree in gender/case?
In Accusative Case can a noun be animate and the same sentences adjective be inanimate. Or must agreement be found for the entire sentence?

Yes, it must. Therefore oni mają czekoladowe jajko.

Thanks Michal.
And because they are neuter I need not change the form to accusative....

Merged: Polish Instrumentalis & Accusative Case

Can anyone (in English, please) easily explain the Polish instrumentalis and accusative cases? I am in a beginning Polish class would like to find some sort of chart that would easily explain it to me. I am confused about how and when the adjective and object endings change. (Instrumentalis verb: być and Accusative verb: mieć) The Polish workbook is confusing.

have you checked this site?

grzegorj.w.interia.pl/gram/en/gram00.html

Thank you. This is an excellent resource. The site is very thorough (but could be more user friendly). Hopefully, I'll find the sections I'm looking for.

You might also find some help on PF by following this link to similar threads :)