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Dzisiaj cyfrowa anonimowość to mit.

Dzisiaj cyfrowa anonimowość to mit.
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From Lesson 357:Verbs taking the genitive (zakazywać, pozbawiać)·Polish

Questions & Answers about Dzisiaj cyfrowa anonimowość to mit.

Why do we use to here instead of jest?
When equating two nouns ("Noun A is Noun B"), you can use the pronoun to as a shortcut. When using to in this way, both nouns stay in the basic Nominative case: anonimowość to mit. This structure is very natural in Polish, especially for general statements or definitions.
Does this sentence use the Genitive case like the verbs taught in this lesson?
No, because there is no action verb here at all! Even though this lesson focuses on verbs like pozbawiać (to deprive) or bronić (to defend) which force the Genitive case, this specific sentence relies on the [Noun] to [Noun] structure. As a result, both anonimowość and mit remain in the Nominative case.
How would this sentence look if we used the actual verb być (to be)?
It would be: Dzisiaj cyfrowa anonimowość jest mitem. The subject (cyfrowa anonimowość) stays Nominative, but the verb jest forces the noun that follows it into the Instrumental case (mitem).
Anonimowość ends in a consonant, so why does it take the feminine adjective cyfrowa?
Nouns ending in the suffix -ość are always feminine in Polish, despite ending in a soft consonant. This suffix is used to create abstract nouns (just like "-ity" or "-ness" in English). Because the noun is feminine, it requires the feminine adjective cyfrowa rather than the masculine cyfrowy.

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