In some phonological descriptions of Polish, however, a greater number of consonants, including especially the labials "m, p, b, f, w", are regarded as occurring in 'hard' and 'soft' pairs. In this approach, for example, the word "pies" ('dog') is analysed not as but as , with a soft . These consonants are then also analysed as soft when they precede the vowel (as in "pić" 'to drink'). Unlike their equivalents in Russian, these consonants cannot retain their softness in the syllable coda (when not followed by a vowel). For example, the word for 'carp' has the inflected forms "karpia", "karpie" etc., with soft (or , depending on the analysis), but the nominative singular is "karp", with a hard .