Breakdown of O jakim nowym projekcie miejskim myślisz?
nowy
new
myśleć
to think
projekt
project
jaki
what kind of, what ... like (asks for an adjective)
Questions & Answers about O jakim nowym projekcie miejskim myślisz?
How is the adjective miejskim formed from the noun miasto?
It is a relational adjective formed with the suffix -ski. The root noun miasto (city) undergoes a stem change where the vowels and consonants shift to create the base adjective miejski. Because it is used in the locative case in this sentence, it takes the masculine locative ending -im to become miejskim.
Why is the word order nowym projekcie miejskim instead of putting both adjectives before the noun?
In Polish, descriptive adjectives like nowy (new) go before the noun, but relational adjectives like miejski (municipal/city) usually go right after the noun. Relational adjectives classify the noun into a specific category rather than describing a trait, so projekt miejski acts almost like a single compound noun.
Why does the noun projekt change to projekcie here?
The preposition o (meaning about) requires the locative case. For masculine inanimate nouns ending in a hard consonant like t, the locative ending is -e, which triggers a softening of the final consonant. Therefore, the t softens to ci, resulting in projekcie.
Does projekt translate exactly to the English word project?