Breakdown of Parking został zamknięty przez policjanta po wypadku.
po
after
policjant
the police officer
parking
the parking lot
zostać zamknięty
to be closed
Questions & Answers about Parking został zamknięty przez policjanta po wypadku.
Why is został zamknięty used here instead of simply zamknięto or another form of the verb?
Został zamknięty is the regular passive voice in Polish, formed with the auxiliary zostać plus the passive participle zamknięty. It lets you later specify the agent (przez policjanta). Zamknięto is an impersonal passive (often called the 3rd-person singular impersonal form) that means “one/they closed” and does not allow you to name who did it.
What case is parking in, and why?
Parking is in the nominative singular case because it is the grammatical subject of the sentence (the thing being closed). In Polish, the subject of a finite verb is in the nominative.
Why is policjanta used after przez, and what case is it?
The preposition przez requires the accusative case when marking the agent in a passive construction. So policjant becomes policjanta (accusative singular). Note that even though English uses “by the policeman,” Polish uses przez + accusative for passive agents.
What role does po wypadku play, and what case is wypadku?
Po wypadku means “after the accident.” The preposition po governs the locative case, so wypadek changes to wypadku (locative singular). This phrase indicates the time when the closing happened.