Pielęgniarka zrobiła mi opatrunek na palec.

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Breakdown of Pielęgniarka zrobiła mi opatrunek na palec.

• mi: me
• pielęgniarka: the nurse
• palec: the finger

Questions & Answers about Pielęgniarka zrobiła mi opatrunek na palec.

Why does the sentence use pielęgniarka and zrobiła?

Because pielęgniarka means a female nurse, and in Polish the past tense agrees with the subject’s gender.

• pielęgniarka zrobiła = a female nurse did it
• pielęgniarz zrobił = a male nurse did it

So the -ła ending in zrobiła shows feminine singular.

What does zrobiła mean here? Does it literally mean made?

Literally, zrobiła can mean made or did, but here it is part of the expression zrobić opatrunek.

In this context, it means something like:

• applied a dressing
• put a bandage on
• dressed the wound

So it is not really about physically manufacturing the dressing.

What does mi mean in this sentence?

Mi is the dative form of ja and means to me or for me.

In natural English, though, you would often translate it as part of my finger:

• zrobiła mi opatrunek na palec
  = she put a dressing on my finger

Polish often uses a dative pronoun like mi with body parts instead of a possessive like my.

Why is there no separate word for my before palec?