Declension of "-ość" - miłość / zieleń

Hello,

I'm trying to find a declension model for female nouns ending with "-ość" but I cannot find any rule or explanation in my books. So, if one of you could pick an example and write down the declension for all cases (and plural), I would appreciate.

Thanks.

Nominative miłość miłości
Genitive miłości miłości
Dative miłości miłościom
Accusative miłość miłości
Instrumental miłością miłościami
Locative miłości miłościach
Vocative miłości miłości

Thanks a lot!

So... genitive singular and plural are identical or is this a typo?

yes they are identical, it takes a context to figure out the meaning

Merged: Declension of "zieleń" ?

Hello,

Still one of those names where we cannot guess the declension because it looks like non-standard. "zieleń" is a female noun, right ?
What is the declension table ?
Can it be applied to all female nouns ending in "-ń" ?

Thank you very much in advance.

zieleń - female noun

Nominative: zieleń
Genitive: zieleni
Dative: zieleni
Accusative: zieleń
Instrumental: zielenią
Locative: zieleni
Vocative: zieleń

The vocative case should be zieleni.
Compare radość and radości in the quotation "O radości, iskro bogów".
Besides Jan Tokarski's declension tables say so.

Not zielenio?
Anyway I remember learning declination names and questions in 3rd grade I think. I was using declination in every sentence, but I didn't even know that it exist, before they made me to learn it in primary school :) My point is that when you are fluent in polish you don't even think, and know which case do you use.

Any examples? :)

For feminine nouns it should go:

NomSg -a
VocSg -o
(e.g. książka, książko; dziewczyna, dziewczyno)

NomSg -(no ending, just a root)
VocSg -i/-y
(e.g. zieleń, zieleni; radość, radości; moc, mocy)

Mayby it should be "zieleni", but normal people would say "zielenio"

Another proof of my not being normal :)

(At least I read dictionaries that tell me how to speak Polish without inventing words like "zielenio").

Languages are very dynamic. Grammatical rules exist only because people use them. It takes a long time to change such things (many decades). But if people in general stop following a principle in "the correct book" and make another grammatical construction, this new one will be in the "correct book" sooner or later. Even if some people try to resist it. It's analogous to all languages. What is considered correct now is for sure not the same as it will be in 75 years. And that's one of the beautiful features of linguistics. Speaking people always make the rules, it just takes some time to change the grammar books.

haha that reminds me classes in acting:P problem in alphabet
"gie" czy "ge" poznaniacy were against rest and pro "ge"
for me better sounds zielenio ale coz mozna na jezyk i zasady

I perfectly know that "correct books" simply follow what people do - languages change and there is nothing we can do about this.

But the question was "How to decline the word zieleń?", not "How the word zieleń will be declined in 75 years?".

I was not answering the question. It was a general reflection on the subject.

But regarding the question. Such linguistic differences are often dialectal or generation dependent.

Now everybody would say zielenio, not in 75 years. You are polish guy and you would say zieleni? Don't kid me. Or you aren't polish, and you know it only from book?

I'd say that now every one would avoid using it at all. This is one of those examples that are used so seldom that most people are not sure what is the correct form.

"Zieleni" is the correct form, but people just dont 'feel' it, because they don't need to use such word in everyday speech. On the other hand, they do use vocative of words like kobieto, dziewczyno, etc. so when they see words like 'zieleń' they're trying to apply the same rules they're used to.

Therefore, monsters like 'zielenio' are born.

Cinek

I fully agree with the preceding post of Cinek. There is really no need to use the noun zieleń in the vocative case. If there is such a need, the noun should be declined in the same way as other feminine nouns ending in -ć or -ść are declined, e.g. radość -> radości, dobroć -> dobroci, miłość -> miłości (O miłości ty moja!).

"Zielenio!, koscio!, nowościo!" forms do seem very awkward, though some people may try to use them (lacking the idea of how to form such vocatives properly).

Thank you cinek and Ziemowit. Two more people speaking Polish here :)