Jesień w parku jest cicha.

to be

Breakdown of Jesień w parku jest cicha.

• w: in
• park: the park
• cichy: quiet

Questions & Answers about Jesień w parku jest cicha.

Why is Jesień capitalized at the beginning of the sentence?

Like in English, Polish capitalizes the very first word of any sentence—regardless of whether it’s a proper noun or not.

What grammatical gender and number is jesień, and how can I recognize it?

Jesień (“autumn”) is feminine singular.
• Many Polish nouns ending in a soft consonant like -ń are feminine.
• Adjectives or verbs describing jesień will also appear in feminine singular form (e.g. cicha, jest as part of the feminine singular predicate).

Why is parku in that form? What case is it?

Parku is the locative singular of park. After certain prepositions—among them w (“in”)—Polish uses the locative case. Here w parku literally means “in (the) park.”

Why do we use the preposition w rather than na for “in the park”?

Polish distinguishes “in” vs. “on” similarly to English:
• w + locative = inside or within something (e.g. w parku, w domu).
• na + locative = on top of or at an open surface (e.g. na stole “on the table,” na łące “in the meadow”).