Declension of diminutives in the Polish language

I have seen declension tables for nouns based on gender/animate/inanimate and stem/noun endings.
Do diminutives follow the declension of the main noun or is it based on their spelling. For example: the genitive form or urlop is urlopu, but is the genitive form of urlopik, urlopka, urlopiku or something else?

urlopika (I think just about every diminutive ending in -ik will have a genitive in -a....) and in this case urlopik seems (maybe) to become animate...

I found "wczoraj mialam urlopika" on google.....

urlopiku - the same as urlopu - not that it matters anyhow


- what about sklepiku

And the example I found "miałam urlopika"?

and I also found

aztekium.pl/find.py?szukaj=urlopik&lang=pl

Maybe it's unstable (like krawat).


what about samochodzik?

"Zapnij pasy swego samochodzika!"

Szynka is not mala szyna that somebody likes very much.

The genitive declensions of diminutives ending with ik vary but I don`t know why:

Kolor sklepiku

długość samochodzika

As for urlopik, both endings seem OK

długość urlopiku/ urlopika.

but I have no idea why.


Personally, I would use urlopik

hehe - that was funny - szynka is a direct borrowing from German ( Schinken )

If we had borrowed it from English, the dimunitive of ham would be hamka.