Word
Na geografii uczymy się o krajach świata.
Meaning
In geography we learn about the countries of the world.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Na geografii uczymy się o krajach świata.
uczyć się
to learn
na
on, at / to (motion toward) / for (a meal) / for (waiting for)
kraj
country
o
about
Questions & Answers about Na geografii uczymy się o krajach świata.
Why do we use na here instead of w for "in geography"?
In Polish, when you talk about being in a class, attending a lecture, or taking a school subject, you use the preposition na instead of w. You can think of it as being "at" a geography lesson.
Why does geografii end with a double -ii?
It is in the locative case because it follows the preposition na. For feminine nouns that end in -ia and are of foreign origin, like geografia, the ending changes to a double -ii in the locative, genitive, and dative cases.
Why do we need the word się after uczymy?
The base verb uczyć actually means "to teach". To say "to learn", Polish uses the reflexive form uczyć się, which conceptually translates to "teaching oneself".
What case is krajach, and why?
It is in the locative case because it follows the preposition o when it means "about". The base word is the masculine noun kraj (country), and the -ach suffix is the highly regular locative plural ending used for almost all nouns in Polish.
Why is it świata and not just the dictionary form ?