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?

@Leo 037james▲ 0▼ 0

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.....

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

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


- what about sklepiku

@gumishu▲ 0▼ 0

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!"

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

Szynka is not mala szyna that somebody likes very much.

@Novichok▲ 0▼ 0

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

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

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

@gumishu▲ 0▼ 0

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

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0