"Jego pies"
Translation:His dog
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wiktionary says that jej and jego are indeclinable and I cannot find a declension table elsewhere. Can someone please explain why cases are listed?
Probably some kind of template used for every noun/adjective etc. just for consistency and to show that jego/jej can be used in different cases.
I apologise if this is explained - I'm on the mobile app so I don't see any grammar notes. Jego pies is in the genitive, isn't it? Are we using the genitive because it's a possessive?
In this case, "jego" is the possessive adjective form of "on". Unlike 1st and 2nd person, 3rd person possessive adjectives can't be declined, so there's no case at all here.
His dog = jego pies. I have his dog = mam jego psa. Can someone explain why psa and pies change here? Thanks
Here we just have a phrase outside of any context, so we use the basic, Nominative form. We'd use the same form if "His dog" was the subject of the sentence (His dog is eating meat = Jego pies je mięso).
In the other sentence, "his dog" is the grammatical object. The verb "mieć" (to have) takes a direct object in Accusative. "jego psa" is the Accusative form of "jego pies".
(Most possessive pronouns undergo declension just like nouns do, but 'jego'='his', 'jej'='her' and 'ich'='their' do not, that's why it's "jego" in both exercises)