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Questions & Answers about To, że tata nie lubi takich koncertów, nie przeszkadza mamie śpiewać w chórze.
What does To, że mean at the beginning of the sentence?
To, że is a very common Polish way to introduce a whole clause as one idea. In this sentence, it means something like the fact that.
So:
To, że tata nie lubi takich koncertów
= The fact that dad doesn’t like such concerts
Here to is not really a concrete this. It works more like a formal placeholder that helps turn the że... clause into the subject of the sentence.
Why is the main verb przeszkadza singular, not plural?
Because the subject of the main clause is not koncertów. The subject is the entire idea:
To, że tata nie lubi takich koncertów
That whole clause is treated as one thing, so the verb is singular:
nie przeszkadza
You can think of it as:
That dad doesn’t like such concerts → one fact, one idea
so → doesn’t prevent / doesn’t bother
Why is it tata if it refers to a man? Doesn’t -a usually look feminine?