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I'm not a linguist so I can't send any articles that explain the origins of this mess. But here are actual examples of usage:

dwa ptaki (two birds)

dwoje ludzi (two persons)

dwie dziewczyny (two girls)

idę z dwiema dziewczynami (I'm walking with two girls)

dałem kwiaty dwom dziewczynom (I gave flowers to two girls)

kanapa dla dwojga (a sofa for two - gender unspecified)

dałem śniadanie dwojgu (I served breakfast for two others)

dwójka to słaba ocena (two is a poor grade)

dwie dwójki to razem czwórka (two twos are four altogether)

dostałem dwójkę z Fizyki (I got a two in physics)

z dwójką przyjaciół poszliśmy do klubu (we went to the club with two friends)

w autobusie dwójce siedział pijany facet (there was a drunk fella on bus number two)

O, dwójko, nie wracaj już do mojego dziennika (Oh, two, don’t come back to my gradebook again)

Of course I don't consciously think about when to use the right conjugation. I just know it by heart and it's second nature but I can only give coherent rules to some of them.

parent abraxas 11 months ago

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