W naszym ogrodzie sąsiadka sadzi kwiaty w każdą sobotę.

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Breakdown of W naszym ogrodzie sąsiadka sadzi kwiaty w każdą sobotę.

• nasz: our
• ogród: the garden
• sąsiadka: the neighbor

Questions & Answers about W naszym ogrodzie sąsiadka sadzi kwiaty w każdą sobotę.

What case is naszym ogrodzie and why is naszym inflected this way?

naszym ogrodzie is in the locative case, which is used with the preposition w when indicating a static location (“in …”). The base adjective nasz (“our”) changes to naszym in masculine singular locative, and ogród becomes ogrodzie.

What function and case is sąsiadka in the sentence?

sąsiadka is the subject performing the action and stands in the nominative singular. In Polish, the subject is usually in the nominative, and here it simply names the person planting the flowers.

Why is the verb sadzi in this form, and why not zasadzi?

sadzi is the third-person singular present tense of the imperfective verb sadzić (“to plant”). Polish verbs have two aspects:

• Imperfective (sadzić): expresses habitual or ongoing actions
• Perfective (zasadzić): expresses a single, completed action
  Since she plants flowers every Saturday (a repeated action), the imperfective sadzi is required. Using zasadzi would imply she plants them just once and is now finished.

What case is kwiaty and why?