Breakdown of Musimy zwiększyć budżet, zamiast go zmniejszyć.
on
he / it (m)
musieć
to have to
zamiast
instead of
zmniejszyć
to reduce
budżet
budget
zwiększyć
to increase (transitive, make something larger)
Questions & Answers about Musimy zwiększyć budżet, zamiast go zmniejszyć.
How do zwiększyć and zmniejszyć relate to the adjectives for "big" and "small"?
They are built directly from the comparative forms of those adjectives. Duży (big) becomes większy (bigger), and adding the prefix z- gives zwiększyć (to make bigger). Similarly, mały (small) becomes mniejszy (smaller), which gives us zmniejszyć (to make smaller).
Are zwiększyć and zmniejszyć perfective or imperfective verbs?
They are perfective. The prefix z- combined with the comparative root focuses on the completed result of changing the budget's size. If you were talking about the ongoing process or routine of changing the budget, you would use their imperfective equivalents: zwiększać and zmniejszać.
Why does the prefix remain z- in both verbs instead of changing to s-?
The prefix z- only changes to s- when the base word starts with an unvoiced consonant (like p, t, k, c, f). Because both większy and mniejszy start with voiced consonants (w and m), the prefix stays as a voiced z-.
Why is the pronoun go used here instead of jego?
Both go and jego are accusative forms for masculine nouns like budżet. However, go is the short, unstressed form. We use go in the middle of the phrase zamiast go zmniejszyć because there is no special emphasis on the word "it".
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