Learn Hardcore Polish: Weekend minął szybko.

Polish doesn’t have definite or indefinite articles. Nouns appear without the or a; context provides specificity. If you want to emphasize “this weekend,” you can say Ten weekend minął szybko, but Weekend minął szybko on its own simply means “the weekend passed quickly.”

What is the gender of weekend in Polish, and how do you know?

Weekend is a masculine inanimate noun. You can tell because the past‐tense verb minął ends in -ł, the typical masculine singular ending. Borrowed nouns ending in a consonant often follow the second declension pattern (like samochód, stół, etc.).

How is the past tense of minąć formed for different genders and numbers?

The past tense uses the stem min- plus endings that agree with the subject’s gender and number:

masculine singular: minął
feminine singular: minęła
neuter singular: minęło
masculine personal plural: minęli
non‐personal plural: minęły

Why is the perfective minął used here instead of the imperfective mijał?