 Some examples,

Before all stops and affricates, it can be pronounced as an oral vowel + nasal consonant, with before most consonants, while appears before "p", "b", "w", or "f"; and appears before palatal consonants "ć", "dź"; before palatal sibilants "ś" and "ź" it is either or (more frequently) .For example,

If "ę" is the final letter of a word or followed by either "l" or "ł", some Poles will pronounce it simply as .For example, ("I will (be)") can be either or , and ("thank you") can be either or .