Questions & Answers about Czwartego maja po pracy idziemy do muzeum na wystawę.
In Polish, dates are usually expressed with the genitive case.
- czwartego = fourth in the genitive
- maja = May in the genitive
So czwartego maja means on the fourth of May / on May 4th.
A helpful way to think about it is that there is an implied word like dnia (day) in the background:
- (dnia) czwartego maja
Because dzień is masculine, the ordinal takes the masculine genitive singular ending -ego.
Maja is the genitive singular of maj.
Month names in Polish usually change form in dates:
- maj → maja
- czerwiec → czerwca
- lipiec → lipca
So after a day number, the month is normally in the genitive:
- 1 maja
- 4 maja
- 15 maja
In Polish, names of months are normally written with a lowercase letter, unlike in English.
So:
- maj
- czerwiec
- grudzień
This is standard Polish spelling.