Krojenie chleba jest łatwe.

to be

Breakdown of Krojenie chleba jest łatwe.

• chleb: the bread
• łatwy: easy
• krojenie: the cutting

Questions & Answers about Krojenie chleba jest łatwe.

What kind of word is krojenie here? Is it a verb form like in English cutting, or is it a noun?

In Krojenie chleba jest łatwe, krojenie is a noun, not a verb form.

• It comes from the verb kroić (to cut, to slice).
• Polish often turns verbs into nouns by adding -nie or -cie to the stem.
  • kroić → krojenie (cut → cutting / the cutting)
  • czytać → czytanie (to read → reading)
  • pisać → pisanie (to write → writing)

So krojenie here means the cutting (of something) or the act of cutting.
It behaves grammatically like a neuter noun in the nominative singular.

Why is it chleba and not chleb after krojenie?

Chleba is the genitive singular form of chleb (bread).

In Polish, many verbal nouns in -nie / -cie take their objects in the genitive case, just like certain verbs do. So:

• kroić chleb = to cut bread (verb + object in accusative)
• krojenie chleba = cutting of bread / the cutting of bread (noun + complement in genitive)

This is very similar to English the cutting of bread, where of introduces the noun that depends on cutting.

Using chleb here (krojenie chleb) would be grammatically wrong.