Word
Biorąc pod uwagę grawitację, łazik działa dobrze.
Meaning
Taking gravity into account, the rover works well.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Biorąc pod uwagę grawitację, łazik działa dobrze.
dobrze
well
działać
to function
brać pod uwagę
to take into account
grawitacja
gravity
Questions & Answers about Biorąc pod uwagę grawitację, łazik działa dobrze.
Why doesn't the phrase biorąc pod uwagę change its endings to match the rest of the sentence?
It functions here as a fixed discourse marker meaning "taking into account" or "considering." It is built from biorąc (the present adverbial participle of brać, meaning "taking"), the preposition pod, and uwagę (attention or consideration). Because it acts as an introductory connector, its form is frozen and you do not need to conjugate it.
What case is grawitację in, and what triggers it?
It is in the accusative case. Even though biorąc pod uwagę acts as a fixed connector, the underlying verb brać (to take) still requires a direct object in the accusative. Thus, the feminine noun grawitacja takes the accusative ending -ę.
Doesn't the grammar rule for -ąc words require the main subject (łazik) to be the one doing the action? Is the rover doing the considering?
You are remembering the rule correctly: a present adverbial participle (ending in -ąc) usually shares the subject of the main clause. Strictly speaking, this sentence implies the rover itself is doing the considering. However, biorąc pod uwagę has become an established exception. Just like the word "considering" in English, Polish speakers use it freely as an independent framing phrase without worrying about the dangling participle.
Could I say łazik pracuje dobrze instead of działa dobrze?