Breakdown of Moja ładowarka szybko ładuje tę baterię.
mój
my
szybko
quickly
ta
this
ładowarka
the charger
ładować
to charge
bateria
the battery
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Questions & Answers about Moja ładowarka szybko ładuje tę baterię.
What is the gender of ładowarka, and why is moja used instead of mój?
Ładowarka is a feminine noun. The possessive pronoun mój must agree with the noun’s gender in the nominative case, so it becomes moja for feminine singular.
Why is tę used before baterię, and what case does bateria take?
Because bateria is the direct object of the verb, it appears in the accusative case. The feminine singular form of ta is tę, and the noun changes its ending to -ę, giving baterię.
Why are there no words for “the” or “a” (articles) in the sentence?
Polish has no articles. Definiteness or indefiniteness is understood from context, word order, and the use of pronouns or adjectives.
What part of speech is szybko, and can it be placed in a different position?
Szybko is an adverb. Polish word order is flexible, so you could also say Moja ładowarka ładuje tę baterię szybko or Szybko moja ładowarka ładuje tę baterię, each variation shifting the emphasis slightly.
Why is the verb ładuje in the present tense, and could we use the perfective naładować instead?
Ładować is an imperfective verb, used for ongoing or habitual actions; its present tense form is ładuje. The perfective counterpart naładować has no present tense (its “present” form is future: naładuję), so to describe a current action you use the imperfective.
In colloquial Polish, can I use tą instead of tę for the accusative feminine?
Yes—tą is very common in spoken Polish, but the standard written form taught in schools is tę.
Could I omit moja and simply say Ładowarka szybko ładuje tę baterię?
Yes. Polish often omits possessives or even subjects when the meaning is clear from context. Dropping moja is perfectly natural if you’ve already identified which charger you mean.
How would you say “The battery charges quickly” without mentioning the charger?
Use the reflexive/intransitive construction: Bateria szybko się ładuje. The particle się makes bateria the subject that “charges itself.”
Where does the stress fall in ładowarka, and is that pattern regular?
Polish stress almost always falls on the penultimate (second-to-last) syllable. So in ładowarka the stress is on DO: ła-DO-war-ka. This penultimate-syllable stress is the general rule in Polish.