Breakdown of Czy oni potajemnie spotykają się wśród znajomych?
czy
[question particle]
oni
they (masculine personal)
spotykać się
to meet
znajomy
acquaintance
wśród
among
potajemnie
secretly
Questions & Answers about Czy oni potajemnie spotykają się wśród znajomych?
Why does this sentence use Czy instead of the lesson's focus word, Czyżby?
Czy makes this a simple, neutral question. If you swapped it to Czyżby oni potajemnie spotykają się wśród znajomych?, it would add a strong sense of surprise or disbelief, meaning something like 'Don't tell me they are secretly meeting...!' or 'Is it really possible that they are...?'.
Why does the word for acquaintances end in -ych here (znajomych)?
The preposition wśród (among) always requires the following noun to take the genitive case. The word znajomy (an acquaintance) is a noun that declines exactly like an adjective, which makes its genitive plural form znajomych.
Is there a trick to remembering the adverb potajemnie (secretly)?
Could we move the reflexive pronoun się to the very end of the sentence?
It is best to avoid doing that. While Polish word order is quite flexible, the word się generally shouldn't dangle at the very end of a sentence if there is a better spot for it. Tucking it right after the verb (spotykają się) sounds much more natural here.
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