I think the Polish example is even a bit more complex than that: it's not really that Polish has a separate form for "a few". That's the regular plural form. It's that Polish uses the genitive plural with certain numerals, instead of the nominative. That is, instead of saying "5 dogs" you say "5 of dogs".
This doesn't, to my knowledge, apply if there is no numeral provided, even if we're talking about 1000 dogs, so it wouldn't be right to call it a plural.
Of course, the point of the article still stands.
Disclaimer: I don't speak Polish. I did learn some Czech though at some point (most of which I've forgotten).
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I think the Polish example is even a bit more complex than that: it's not really that Polish has a separate form for "a few". That's the regular plural form. It's that Polish uses the genitive plural with certain numerals, instead of the nominative. That is, instead of saying "5 dogs" you say "5 of dogs".
This doesn't, to my knowledge, apply if there is no numeral provided, even if we're talking about 1000 dogs, so it wouldn't be right to call it a plural.
Of course, the point of the article still stands.
Disclaimer: I don't speak Polish. I did learn some Czech though at some point (most of which I've forgotten).