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What does each word in Chcę złożyć reklamację mean?
- Chcę = I want
- złożyć = to submit / to file / to make
- reklamację = a complaint (especially a consumer complaint about a product or service)
So the whole sentence means I want to file a complaint.
Why is it chcę and not chcieć?
Chcieć is the dictionary form, meaning to want.
In the sentence, you need the conjugated form because the subject is I.
So:
- chcieć = to want
- chcę = I want
This is the 1st person singular present-tense form.
A few forms of chcieć are:
- chcę = I want
- chcesz = you want
- chce = he/she/it wants
- chcemy = we want
- chcecie = you (plural) want
- chcą = they want
Why is złożyć in the infinitive?