Word
Latem najczęściej biegam rano w parku.
Meaning
In the summer I most often run in the park in the morning.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Latem najczęściej biegam rano w parku.
Why is it Latem and not w lato or just lato at the beginning?
Latem is the instrumental case of lato used adverbially to mean “in summer / during the summer”.
Polish often uses the instrumental case without a preposition for general time expressions, especially seasons:
- latem – in (the) summer
- zimą – in (the) winter
- wiosną – in (the) spring
- jesienią – in (the) autumn / fall
You can also say:
- W lecie najczęściej biegam rano w parku.
That is also correct and means the same, but latem is shorter and more idiomatic in this kind of sentence.
Plain lato at the beginning (without case ending, like Lato najczęściej biegam…) would be wrong here, because lato as a bare noun is not in the right case for this time expression.
What exactly does najczęściej mean, and how is it different from często?