Breakdown of Nie chcemy angażować się w ich kłótnię.
nie
no / not
chcieć
to want
kłótnia
the argument
ich
their (invariable possessive)
Questions & Answers about Nie chcemy angażować się w ich kłótnię.
Why do we use w + Accusative (w kłótnię) instead of the Locative case for "in their argument"?
The preposition w takes the Locative when describing a static physical location. However, verbs of involvement, belief, or transformation—like angażować się (to get involved)—take the Accusative. Think of it as a dynamic "mental movement" into the situation, much like how physical motion (going into a room) also requires w + Accusative.
What is the difference between angażować and angażować się?
Angażować without się means to involve, engage, or hire someone else (e.g., involving an expert). By adding the reflexive pronoun się, it becomes an action directed at the subject: you are involving yourself. So, angażować się w coś means "to get (oneself) involved in something".
Why doesn't the pronoun ich (their) change its ending to match the Accusative case of kłótnię?
While 1st and 2nd person possessive pronouns (like mój or wasz) decline to agree with the noun's case, gender, and number, 3rd person possessives (jego, jej, and ich) are completely frozen. Because they are technically Genitive pronouns literally meaning "of him", "of her", and "of them", they never change their shape regardless of what happens to the noun they modify.
Could we use the perfective verb zaangażować się here instead of angażować się?