Breakdown of W weekend warto pojeździć na rowerze i pograć w tenisa.
i
and
na
on, at / to (motion toward) / for (a meal) / for (waiting for)
weekend
the weekend
w
at (playing a game)
tenis
tennis
rower
bicycle
warto
it is worth (warto + infinitive)
pojeździć
to ride for a while
pograć
to play for a while
Questions & Answers about W weekend warto pojeździć na rowerze i pograć w tenisa.
Why do we use pojeździć and pograć here instead of their basic forms, jeździć and grać?
This is the delimitative po- prefix at work! Adding po- to the imperfective verbs jeździć (to ride) and grać (to play) creates perfective verbs that mean doing the action for a little while or for a bit. It gives the sentence a relaxed, casual tone, which is perfect for describing weekend activities.
Could I use pojechać instead of pojeździć here?
Not without changing the meaning completely. Pojechać comes from the one-way motion verb jechać and means to set off or to depart to a specific destination. Pojeździć comes from the multi-way verb jeździć and, with the po- prefix, means to casually ride around for fun without a specific destination.
Why is it w tenisa with an -a at the end? Isn't tenis a masculine inanimate noun?
Technically, yes! However, there is a special exception in Polish: names of sports, games, and dances typically take the masculine animate ending (-a) in the accusative case. That is why you say grać w tenisa, grać w golfa, or grać w pokera.
What case is being used in the phrase na rowerze, and why?
That is the Locative case. Whenever you talk about riding a vehicle or an animal, you use the preposition na followed by the Locative case. Because of this rule, we say na rowerze (on a bike), whereas we use the preposition w plus the Accusative case for playing sports, like w tenisa.
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