Hasło, które wybrałem, jest proste, lecz wystarczające.

The password that I chose is simple but sufficient.

Breakdown of Hasło, które wybrałem, jest proste, lecz wystarczające.

• być: to be
• prosty: simple
• które: that
• hasło: the password

Questions & Answers about Hasło, które wybrałem, jest proste, lecz wystarczające.

Why is które used here instead of który?

Które is the neuter singular form of the relative pronoun, matching hasło, which is a neuter noun. Polish pronouns and adjectives must agree in gender (masculine/feminine/neuter) and number (singular/plural) with the noun they refer to.

What part of speech is wybrałem, and what does the ending -em tell us?

Wybrałem is a past‐tense verb (the perfective verb wybrać “to choose”). The ending -em indicates first person singular masculine in the past tense. A female speaker would say wybrałam.

After wybrałem, hasło is the direct object—why does it still look like the nominative form?

Because hasło is a neuter noun. In Polish, neuter nouns have identical forms in the nominative and accusative singular. So even though it’s grammatically accusative here (object of wybrałem), it looks the same as the nominative.

Why are proste and wystarczające in the nominative case, even though they follow a verb?

They are predicate adjectives linked by the copula jest. In Polish, adjectives after być (“to be”) take the nominative case to agree with the subject (hasło), not the object.

Why is there a comma before lecz?