Questions & Answers about Poslední pes čeká u dveří.
Why is pes in the form pes, not psa or something else?
Because pes is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative case.
- pes = nominative singular, dog
- psa = usually accusative singular or genitive singular
In Poslední pes čeká u dveří, the dog is the one doing the action of waiting, so nominative is required.
Why is poslední written that way?
Poslední is an adjective meaning last or final, and it has to agree with pes in:
- gender: masculine animate
- number: singular
- case: nominative
So poslední pes means the last dog.
A useful thing to know: poslední belongs to a type of adjective whose ending is often -í, so this form is normal.
Does poslední mean last as in time, or last as in the one at the end?