Ten plan to szaleństwo.

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Breakdown of Ten plan to szaleństwo.

• plan: the plan
• ten: this
• szaleństwo: madness; a crazy idea

Questions & Answers about Ten plan to szaleństwo.

Why is it ten plan and not to plan or ta plan?

Because plan is a masculine singular noun in Polish.

The demonstrative ten means this for a masculine singular noun:

• ten = masculine
• ta = feminine
• to = neuter

So:

• ten plan = this plan
• ta idea = this idea
• to szaleństwo = this madness / it is madness

A native English speaker often expects one word for this, but in Polish it changes to match the noun’s gender.

What does to mean here?

Here, to works like is in an identifying sentence.

So Ten plan to szaleństwo literally works like:

• This plan = madness

In Polish, to is very commonly used in sentences where one thing is identified as another thing:

• To mój brat. = This is my brother.
• Warszawa to stolica Polski. = Warsaw is the capital of Poland.
• Ten plan to szaleństwo. = This plan is madness.

So this to is not the English to from to go or to eat. It has a completely different job.