Breakdown of W zeszycie przeczytałam osiemnaście krótkich zdań po polsku.
Questions & Answers about W zeszycie przeczytałam osiemnaście krótkich zdań po polsku.
W zeszycie means in the notebook or in the exercise book.
The basic form is zeszyt. After the preposition w when it means in, Polish normally uses the locative case, so:
- zeszyt = notebook
- w zeszycie = in the notebook
This is why the ending changes.
Przeczytałam means I read / I finished reading.
It contains several pieces of information at once:
- prze- → a prefix that often suggests completion
- czytać / przeczytać → to read / to read through, finish reading
- -łam → past tense, 1st person singular feminine (I, spoken by a woman)
So przeczytałam tells you all of this:
- the subject is I
- the action happened in the past
- the speaker is female
- the action is completed
A male speaker would say przeczytałem.