Breakdown of Nowy system pozbawia nas prywatności.
nowy
new
my
we
system
the system
prywatność
privacy
pozbawiać
to deprive
Questions & Answers about Nowy system pozbawia nas prywatności.
Why is prywatności in the Genitive case?
This is the core of your current lesson! Verbs of deprivation, like pozbawiać (to deprive), require the thing being taken away to be in the Genitive case. So, the English phrase "of privacy" translates to the single Genitive word prywatności.
Since pozbawiać is a verb of deprivation, are both nas and prywatności in the Genitive case?
No. The verb pozbawiać takes two different cases for its objects. The person being deprived takes the Accusative case, while the thing being taken away takes the Genitive case. Even though the pronoun nas (us) happens to look identical in both the Accusative and Genitive, grammatically it is in the Accusative here.
Why does the Genitive form of prywatność end in -i?
Feminine nouns that end in a soft consonant in their basic Nominative form usually take -i or -y in the Genitive. Abstract nouns ending in the suffix -ść (like prywatność, miłość, or wolność) always take -i, making it prywatności.
Why use the imperfective pozbawia instead of the perfective pozbawi?
We use the imperfective pozbawiać because this describes a general, ongoing characteristic of the new system. If you wanted to say that the system took away our privacy in one finalized, completed event, you would use the perfective past tense: Nowy system pozbawił nas prywatności.
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