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-ów

See also: ow, ów, -ow, and 'ow

Polish

Suffix

-ów

used to create village and town names, especially in south Poland

Usage notes

Examples include Kraków, Chorzów, Gorzów Wielkopolski. In many cases the root is archaic or a relict from from a protolanguage, so unambiguous etymological reconstruction is impossible.

Declension

declension of -ów

	singular
nominative	-ów
genitive	-owa
dative	-owowi
accusative	-ów
instrumental	-owem
locative	-owie
vocative	-owie

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Polish_words_suffixed_with_-%C3%B3w'>Polish words suffixed with -ów</a>