Word
W tym miesiącu miałem dużo nadgodzin.
Meaning
This month I had a lot of overtime.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of W tym miesiącu miałem dużo nadgodzin.
mieć
to have
ten
this (m)
w
in / on (a day)
dużo
a lot / much
Questions & Answers about W tym miesiącu miałem dużo nadgodzin.
Why does miesiącu end in -u for the Locative case instead of -e?
The preposition w (in) requires the Locative case here. Even though miesiąc (month) is a regular masculine noun, it ends in c. In Polish grammar, c functions as a soft consonant, and masculine nouns ending in soft consonants take the -u ending in the Locative instead of -e.
Does miałem change depending on who is speaking?
Yes, miałem is the first-person past tense form used by male speakers. If a woman were saying this sentence, she would use miałam.
Why is the word for overtime (nadgodzin) in this specific form?
It is in the Genitive plural case. The word dużo (a lot) is a quantity word, and in Polish, quantity words always require the noun that follows them to take the Genitive case.
How do we get the form nadgodzin from the base dictionary word?
The base dictionary word is nadgodzina, which is a feminine noun made by combining nad- (over) and godzina (hour). To form the Genitive plural for most feminine nouns ending in -a, you simply drop the -a at the end. This is known as a zero ending, which leaves us with just nadgodzin.