Questions & Answers about To jest nowa zabawka dla naszej córki.
What does to mean here?
In this sentence, to means this or it in the sense of identifying something.
So To jest nowa zabawka... literally means This is a new toy...
A useful thing to know is that Polish to is very often used in simple X is Y sentences:
- To jest dom. = This is a house.
- To jest moja siostra. = This is my sister.
It is not changing for gender here, which is why you see to, not ta.
Why is jest used?
Jest is the 3rd person singular form of the verb być = to be.
So:
- jest = is
In To jest nowa zabawka, it connects to and nowa zabawka, just like is in English:
- This is a new toy.
Polish often drops subject pronouns like he, she, or it, but here jest is still needed in a normal full sentence.
Why is it nowa, not nowy?