Leniwy pies śpi w łazience, bo tam pachnie mydłem.

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Breakdown of Leniwy pies śpi w łazience, bo tam pachnie mydłem.

• w: in
• bo: because
• tam: there

Questions & Answers about Leniwy pies śpi w łazience, bo tam pachnie mydłem.

What does leniwy mean and why does it end with -y?

leniwy means lazy. In Polish, adjectives agree with the noun they describe in gender, number and case. Here pies (dog) is masculine, singular, and in the nominative case (it’s the subject), so the adjective takes the masculine singular nominative ending -y.

Why is there no the or a before leniwy pies?

Polish does not use articles like the or a. Context tells you whether you mean a lazy dog or the lazy dog—you simply say leniwy pies.

What is śpi, and why not śpią or śpimy?

śpi is the third person singular present form of spać (“to sleep”). It means he/she/it sleeps.

• śpią would be third person plural (“they sleep”),
• śpimy is first person plural (“we sleep”).

Why is it w łazience and not na łazience or w łazienka?

1) w means in (inside), while na means (on top of). A dog sleeps inside the bathroom, so we use .2) When denotes a static location, it requires the locative case. (bathroom) in the locative singular becomes .