Question 1

Why do we use przez naszych ankieterów instead of just the Instrumental case to say "by our pollsters"?

Accepted Answer

In Polish passive sentences, the person performing the action (the agent) is introduced with the preposition przez followed by the Accusative case. The bare Instrumental case is used for the tool or method used to perform an action, not the conscious person doing it.

Question 2

If przez takes the Accusative case, why does naszych ankieterów look like the Genitive?

Accepted Answer

For masculine personal nouns and adjectives in the plural (like our pollsters here), the Accusative form is identical to the Genitive form. So naszych ankieterów is technically in the Accusative case after przez, even though it uses the familiar Genitive endings.

Question 3

If we changed this to the active voice ("Our pollsters manage this target group"), what case would the target group be in?

Accepted Answer

It would be in the Instrumental case: Nasi ankieterzy zarządzają tą grupą docelową. The verb zarządzać (to manage) requires the Instrumental case for the thing being managed. When turned into a passive sentence, that object becomes the Nominative subject (ta grupa docelowa).

Question 4

How is the adjective docelowa (target) formed?

Accepted Answer

It is built around the core noun cel, which means "goal," "aim," or "target." Combined with the prefix do- and an adjective ending, it forms docelowy, which is commonly used in business and marketing contexts for things like a target group or destination.

Ta grupa docelowa jest zarządzana przez naszych ankieterów.

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