Word
Agencja nie może przystać na nieprzewidziane zaopatrzenie.
Meaning
The agency cannot agree to unforeseen supplies.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Agencja nie może przystać na nieprzewidziane zaopatrzenie.
nie
no / not
móc
to be able to
agencja
agency
przystać na
to agree to
Questions & Answers about Agencja nie może przystać na nieprzewidziane zaopatrzenie.
Why does przystać take the preposition na here?
Like many verbs expressing a mental stance, expectation, or consent, przystać (to agree or consent) takes na followed by the Accusative case. You will see this same pattern with zgodzić się na (to agree to). It points your consent toward a specific condition or idea.
How is przystać na different from saying zgodzić się na?
They are very similar, but przystać na often carries a slight nuance of conceding, yielding, or formally accepting a term after some consideration. It is also slightly more formal than zgodzić się.
How is the word nieprzewidziane built?
It is a passive participle acting as an adjective. It comes from the perfective verb przewidzieć (to foresee). By adding the negative prefix nie-, it becomes unforeseen or unexpected. Because it describes the neuter singular noun zaopatrzenie in the Accusative case, it takes the neuter Accusative ending -e.
The English translation says supplies, but is zaopatrzenie plural here?
No, zaopatrzenie is a singular neuter noun. Polish often uses singular verbal nouns ending in -nie for broad concepts like supply or provisioning, where English naturally uses a plural noun. Because it follows na in this context, it is in the Accusative case, which for neuter nouns looks exactly the same as the Nominative.