Word
Jesteśmy dumni z naszej nowej kopalni.
Meaning
We are proud of our new mine.
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Questions & Answers about Jesteśmy dumni z naszej nowej kopalni.
Why does the sentence use the preposition z instead of a direct translation for 'of'?
In Polish, the adjective dumny (proud) always dictates the use of the preposition z followed by the Genitive case. This is a set grammatical pairing where you are literally proud 'from' something. You must memorize these adjective-preposition pairs as a single chunk of vocabulary.
Why is the adjective in the form dumni instead of dumne?
The word dumni is the masculine-personal (virile) plural form. You use it here assuming the 'we' in the sentence includes at least one male. If an all-female group were speaking, they would use the non-masculine-personal form and say Jesteśmy dumne.
The basic word for 'mine' is kopalnia. Why does it change to kopalni here?
Because the phrase dumny z forces the following noun into the Genitive case. For feminine nouns that end in -nia (like kopalnia), the Genitive singular form drops the final -a and simply ends in -ni.
Why do the modifiers naszej and nowej both end in -ej?
They are feminine adjectives modifying kopalni, so they must agree with it and take the Genitive case. In Polish, feminine adjectives and possessive pronouns almost always take the -ej ending across the Genitive, Dative, and Locative cases.