Gender neutral language in Polish: Difference between revisions

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==Pronouns==

In Polish there is no standard gender-neutral pronoun like English's [[singular they]]~~. There is a neuter pronoun "ono" but that can be considered dehumanizing, similar to "it" in English~~.

In Polish there is no standard gender-neutral pronoun like English's [[singular they]].

~~Some Polish-speaking nonbinary people just use~~ "he" ("~~on") or "she" ("ona") – either the same as their [[gender assigned at birth]] or the opposite.<ref name="zaimkipl~~"~~>{{Cite web |title=An overview of Polish nonbinary pronouns |trans-title= |author= |work=Zaimki~~.~~pl |date= |access-date=25 November 2020 |url= https://zaimki.pl/english |language=en }}</ref>~~

There is a neuter pronoun "ono/jego" but that can be considered dehumanizing, similar to "it/its" in English.

Some ~~new pronoun forms have been proposed~~.

Some Polish-speaking nonbinary people just use "he/his" ("on/jego") or "she/her" ("ona/jej") – either the same as their [[gender assigned at birth]] or the opposite.<ref name="zaimkipl">{{Cite web |title=An overview of Polish nonbinary pronouns |trans-title= |author= |work=Zaimki.pl |date= |access-date=25 November 2020 |url= https://zaimki.pl/english |language=en }}</ref>

Some neopronoun forms have been proposed, such as<ref name="zaim_Skąd">{{Cite web |title=Skąd potrzeba niebinarnych zaimków? |trans-title=Where is the need for nonbinary pronouns? |author= |work=Zaimki.pl |date= |access-date=25 November 2020 |url= https://zaimki.pl/ |language=pl}}</ref>:

* onu/jenu

* vono/vego

* ne/nego

* onx/jex

* ony/jegy

* ony/ich

* onø/jenø

For second-person pronouns, it is possible to use the mixed-gender plural "państwo" in place of masculine "pan" or feminine "pani", but using this in reference to a singular person is not well-established.