Questions & Answers about Fizyka i chemia są trudne.
Why is the adjective trudne used here instead of trudni?
In Polish, plural adjectives have two forms: masculine-personal (for groups including at least one man) and non-masculine-personal (for everything else, including animals, objects, and groups of women). Since fizyka and chemia are both feminine nouns representing abstract concepts, their combined plural falls into the non-masculine-personal category. Therefore, we use the ending -e to make trudne.
Both fizyka and chemia are singular words. Why do we use the plural verb są?
Just like in English, when you connect two singular nouns with i (and), they combine to form a plural subject. Because the subject is plural, the verb must be the third-person plural są (are), and the adjective describing them must also be plural.
Are school subjects like fizyka and chemia always lowercase in Polish?
Yes, general school subjects and fields of study are not capitalized in Polish unless they appear at the beginning of a sentence or form part of a specific official proper noun, such as the official name of a university faculty.
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