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Because after the preposition w meaning “in/inside” with a static location, Polish requires the locative case.
- zamrażarka (freezer, fem.) → locative: w zamrażarce
- kuchnia (kitchen, fem.) → locative: w kuchni
If you were talking about movement into a place, you would normally use do + genitive: do kuchni (to the kitchen), not “w kuchnię.”
Polish uses the genitive case in existential/negated “there is/there isn’t” patterns. With nie ma (“there isn’t”), the noun goes to genitive:
- affirmative: jest miejsce (there is space; nominative)
- negative: nie ma miejsca (there is no space; genitive)
This is often called the “genitive of negation/absence.”
Do drugiej is short for do drugiej zamrażarki (“to the other/second freezer”). The noun zamrażarki is omitted because it’s obvious from context.
- do always takes the genitive case.
- zamrażarka is feminine, so the adjective/ordinal agrees: drugiej (genitive feminine of druga “second”). Hence: do (czego?) drugiej (zamrażarki).