Zarząd traktuje tego eksperta jako przedstawiciela.
The board treats this expert as a representative.
Breakdown of Zarząd traktuje tego eksperta jako przedstawiciela.
ten
this (m)
ekspert
expert
jako
as (in the role of)
zarząd
the board of directors
traktować
to treat
przedstawiciel
representative
Questions & Answers about Zarząd traktuje tego eksperta jako przedstawiciela.
Why is przedstawiciela in the accusative case rather than the instrumental case usually used for roles?
This is the core feature of the word jako (as). Instead of forcing a specific case like most prepositions do, jako is transparent. The noun after it simply copies the case of the noun it describes. Since the board is treating tego eksperta (the direct object, accusative), the role he is being treated as (przedstawiciela) must also be in the accusative.
Would the case of przedstawiciela change if the sentence was passive, like 'The expert is treated as a representative'?
Yes! Because jako matches cases, if you made the expert the subject of a passive sentence (Ten ekspert jest traktowany...), the expert would be in the nominative case. Therefore, the word after jako would transparently match it and switch to the nominative: jako przedstawiciel.
Why do both ekspert and przedstawiciel take an -a ending here?
Both are masculine personal nouns, which means their accusative forms are identical to their genitive forms, ending in -a. Even though przedstawiciel has a soft consonant ending in the nominative, the rule for masculine personal nouns applies consistently here.
In English, collective nouns like 'board' or 'team' can sometimes take plural verbs. Is that true for zarząd?
No, Polish is very strict about grammatical number for collective nouns. Words like zarząd (board), zespół (team), or rodzina (family) are grammatically singular. They always take a singular verb, which is why we use traktuje instead of the plural traktują.
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