Breakdown of Odcinek lędźwiowy kręgosłupa boli.
Questions & Answers about Odcinek lędźwiowy kręgosłupa boli.
Word by word:
- odcinek = section, segment
- lędźwiowy = lumbar
- kręgosłupa = of the spine / of the backbone
- boli = hurts, aches, is painful
So the whole phrase means something like The lumbar section of the spine hurts.
Because Polish uses the genitive case to express of the spine.
- kręgosłup = spine
- odcinek kręgosłupa = section of the spine
This is a very common pattern in Polish:
- koniec filmu = the end of the film
- drzwi domu = the door of the house
- odcinek kręgosłupa = the section of the spine
So kręgosłupa is the genitive singular form of kręgosłup.
It is in the nominative singular, because it is the grammatical subject of the sentence.
The structure is:
- odcinek = head noun, nominative singular
- lędźwiowy = adjective matching it in nominative singular masculine
- kręgosłupa = genitive singular, dependent on odcinek
So literally the subject is the lumbar section of the spine, and boli agrees with that singular subject.