Breakdown of Kobiety były nam życzliwe i przychylne pomysłowi.
być
to be
i
and
kobieta
woman
my
we
pomysł
idea
życzliwy
kind
przychylny
favorable (attitude, well-disposed)
Questions & Answers about Kobiety były nam życzliwe i przychylne pomysłowi.
Why do nam and pomysłowi take the Dative case here?
Both życzliwy (kind) and przychylny (favorable) are adjectives that mandate the Dative case for the person or thing receiving the attitude. The women are kind to us (nam) and favorable to the idea (pomysłowi).
Why is the pronoun nam placed before its adjective, but the noun pomysłowi placed after?
Both adjectives end in -e (życzliwe, przychylne). What case and gender is this?
They are in the Nominative plural, specifically the non-virile (niemęskoosobowy) form, to agree with the feminine plural noun kobiety. If the subject were a group of men or a mixed-gender group, these would change to the virile forms życzliwi and przychylni.
Is there a rule for why the Dative form of pomysł is pomysłowi and not pomysłu?
Pomysł is a masculine inanimate noun, and the vast majority of all masculine nouns take the -owi ending in the Dative case. Only a small group of highly common exceptions (like panu, psu, kotu, ojcu, światu) take the -u ending, so -owi is almost always your safest bet.
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