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Questions & Answers about Mam wszystko.
What is the literal, word-by-word translation of Mam wszystko?
mam = I have
wszystko = everything
Why is there no word for “I” in the sentence?
Polish is a pro-drop language: the verb ending -ę in mam already signals 1st person singular. You can add ja (I) for emphasis—Ja mam wszystko—but it’s usually omitted.
What part of speech is wszystko?
Wszystko is an indefinite pronoun (neuter gender, singular), meaning “everything.”
What grammatical case is wszystko in, and why?
It’s in the accusative case. The verb mieć (to have) takes a direct object, which here is wszystko.
Can I switch the word order to Wszystko mam? Would that change the meaning?
Yes. Polish word order is flexible. Wszystko mam is perfectly correct and simply places emphasis on everything rather than on having it.
How do you pronounce mam wszystko?
mam [mam]
wszystko [ˈfʂɨst.kɔ]
The szcz cluster sounds like English “shst.”
Are there synonyms for mam in this context?
A more formal equivalent is posiadam (I possess). So you could say Posiadam wszystko, but in everyday speech mam wszystko is much more common.
How would you express the negative of Mam wszystko?
You’d say Nie mam nic. Here nie negates the verb, and nic (nothing) is the antonym of wszystko.