Breakdown of Naczytałem się w internecie bzdur o tym skandalu.
ten
this (m)
w
in / on (a day)
internet
internet
o
about
skandal
scandal
bzdura
nonsense
naczytać się
to read a lot of
Questions & Answers about Naczytałem się w internecie bzdur o tym skandalu.
How does naczytałem się differ from just saying czytałem or przeczytałem?
The combination of the prefix na- and the reflexive pronoun się expresses doing an action to the point of excess or saturation. While czytałem means "I was reading" and przeczytałem means "I read to completion", naczytałem się specifically means "I read a ton of" or "I read until I had enough". Because it focuses on the completion of this accumulation, it is a perfective verb.
Why is bzdur in the genitive case instead of the accusative?
Verbs using the cumulative na- ... się pattern almost always force their direct object into the genitive case. This acts like a partitive genitive, expressing an accumulated quantity of something. Here, the noun bzdura (nonsense) takes the genitive plural form bzdur.
English uses "on the internet". Why does this sentence use w internecie?
Polish treats the internet as a virtual space or container you are inside of, rather than a flat surface. Because of this, it uses the preposition w (in) followed by the locative case. You might occasionally hear na internecie in very casual speech, but w internecie is the standard, correct form.
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