Breakdown of Fizjoterapeuta sprawdza mięsień i więzadło.
i
and
sprawdzać
to check
fizjoterapeuta
the physiotherapist
mięsień
the muscle
Questions & Answers about Fizjoterapeuta sprawdza mięsień i więzadło.
Why are mięsień and więzadło in these forms? Shouldn’t the objects change?
They are the direct objects of sprawdza, so they are in the accusative case.
But in this sentence, their accusative forms happen to look the same as the nominative:
- mięsień — masculine inanimate
- nominative: mięsień
- accusative: mięsień
- więzadło — neuter
- nominative: więzadło
- accusative: więzadło
So yes, they are objects, but there is no visible change here.
Why does fizjoterapeuta end in -a if it means a male profession?
In Polish, some masculine personal nouns end in -a. Fizjoterapeuta is one of them.
So even though the ending may look feminine to an English speaker, grammatically it is treated as a masculine personal noun when referring to a man.
For example:
- dobry fizjoterapeuta = a good physiotherapist
not dobra fizjoterapeuta
Its case forms also behave like this type of masculine noun:
- nominative: fizjoterapeuta
- accusative/genitive: fizjoterapeutę / fizjoterapeuty
What exactly does sprawdza mean grammatically?