The Polish word for "cat" is "kot". Its genitive form is "kota", which has the ending "–a". Because the nominative form consists of the stem without an ending, it can be said that "kot" has the zero ending. In a table listing the endings one could hence write: "Nominative: –∅, Genitive: –a".
unend zero article zero suffix endinglessness null morpheme zero morpheme null prefix nounlessness null suffix zero prefix
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