Breakdown of To ciekawa inicjatywa obywatelska, którą musisz zobaczyć.
to
this
ciekawy
interesting
musieć
to have to
zobaczyć
to see (perfective)
który
which, who (relative)
inicjatywa
initiative
obywatelski
civic
Questions & Answers about To ciekawa inicjatywa obywatelska, którą musisz zobaczyć.
Why is inicjatywa obywatelska in the Nominative case here, instead of the Instrumental?
Because the sentence uses the pronoun To immediately followed by the noun phrase, a structure which takes the Nominative case. If the sentence explicitly used the verb jest (as in To jest...), the noun phrase would traditionally take the Instrumental case (To jest ciekawą inicjatywą obywatelską).
Why is the relative pronoun którą in the Accusative case, when the noun it refers to (inicjatywa) is in the Nominative?
A relative pronoun takes its gender and number from the noun it refers to (feminine singular), but its case depends on its grammatical role inside its own clause. Here, którą is the direct object of the verb zobaczyć (to see), so it must take the Accusative case.
This lesson covers the preposition na rzecz (for the benefit of). How could I add that to this sentence to say 'an initiative for the benefit of citizens'?
You would use na rzecz followed by the Genitive case of the target group. To say 'for the benefit of citizens', you would add na rzecz obywateli right after the noun phrase: To ciekawa inicjatywa na rzecz obywateli, którą musisz zobaczyć.
What is the root noun for the adjective obywatelska (civic)?
It comes from the noun obywatel, meaning 'citizen'. The suffix -ski (or -ska for feminine words) is a very common way to turn people-related nouns into adjectives in Polish.
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