Breakdown of Według agencji musimy liczyć na tego podwykonawcę.
ten
this (m)
musieć
to have to
według
according to
liczyć na
to count on (+ Accusative)
agencja
agency
podwykonawca
subcontractor
Questions & Answers about Według agencji musimy liczyć na tego podwykonawcę.
Why does liczyć na take the accusative case here instead of the locative?
The preposition na usually takes the locative case when describing a static location. However, with verbs of mental focus, expectation, or directed action like liczyć na (to count on), it always requires the accusative case because your focus is being directed toward the object.
Podwykonawca (subcontractor) is a masculine noun. Why does it take the feminine-looking ending -ę in podwykonawcę?
Masculine nouns that end in -a in the nominative case, such as podwykonawca, mężczyzna, or kolega, decline like feminine nouns in the singular. Since feminine nouns take -ę in the accusative case, podwykonawca becomes podwykonawcę.
If podwykonawcę uses a feminine ending, why is the pronoun before it tego (masculine) instead of tę (feminine)?
Even though the noun borrows feminine endings for its declension, its actual grammatical gender remains masculine personal. Adjectives and pronouns modifying it must agree with this true gender. Therefore, we use the masculine accusative pronoun tego, creating the mismatched-looking phrase tego podwykonawcę.
What case does the word agencji take after the preposition według?
It is in the genitive case. The preposition według (according to) always requires the genitive case, changing the feminine noun agencja to agencji.
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