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This template should be used to decline all Polish adjectives.

Usage
Generally, no arguments need to be supplied to the template. For example, for the adjective :

produces

The module knows how to decline hard, soft and velar adjectives, as well as irregular pronouns and numerals that decline adjectivally.

Indicators
Indicators can be specified inside of angle brackets to modify the default declension behavior. For example, adjectives with an archaic dative in -u such as and  should use , e.g. for :

produces

Overrides
You can override any specific form using an indicator, where   is the code for a given slot (e.g.   for the nominative feminine singular) and   is the desired value. Use  to specify multiple values. The most useful slots to override are probably, which adds a short form to the adjective, and  , which overrides the masculine personal (i.e. virile) nominative plural. An adjective using both is :

which produces

This also shows that multiple indicators are separated by a period.

Decline as if
You can specify that a given term should decline like some other term. This is useful, for example, with short-lemma adjectives and pronouns such as and. For example, for :

which produces

Note how the pagename is used for the nominative masculine singular (and the inanimate accusative masculine singular, which is copied from the nominative masculine singular), but the declined forms of the specified lemma are used elsewhere.

Irregular pronouns and numerals
Use the indicator  to decline irregular pronouns and numerals. For example, for :

which produces

Note that you can specify the lemma before the indicator if needed. This is especially useful for pronominal terms like, which declines like followed by a fixed suffix -ś:

which produces

Plural-only pronouns and numerals can be declined the same way, and will automatically change the table format to reflect the plural-only nature of the term. This happens, for example, with :

which produces

Other pronouns of this sort are, (which has a slightly different-format table), and derivatives of  such as.