Stress and pronunciation. There are some words which have no stress. They are called enclitics and proclitics . A proclitic is pronounced as a prefix of the following word and enclitics behave like a suffix. Gender of nouns.
Polish nouns can be either masculine, feminine or neuter.
In this lesson we only deal with masculine and feminine ones. Gender is the main subject of lesson 2, so please be patient. Nouns and personal pronouns decline for case. This means that a word has several forms and each of them is used in a different grammatical context. Specifically, declension affects the ending and, for a noun, reflects the case that noun has in a particular grammatical context.