Breakdown of Nagle przerażający chłód ogarnął całe wnętrze.
cały
whole, entire
nagle
suddenly
przerażający
terrifying
wnętrze
the interior
Questions & Answers about Nagle przerażający chłód ogarnął całe wnętrze.
Is przerażający a standard adjective, or does it come from a verb?
It is an active adjectival participle (a verb acting like an adjective). It comes from the imperfective verb przerażać (to terrify). At the B2 level, you will see many of these -ący endings used naturally as everyday adjectives to describe what someone or something is currently doing.
I usually hear ogarnąć used as slang for 'tidying up' or 'figuring something out'. Why does it mean 'engulfed' here?
The literal, more literary meaning of ogarnąć is to embrace, encompass, or overwhelm. While everyday Polish uses it as slang for organizing a space (ogarnąć pokój) or understanding a situation, in narratives it is often used to describe abstract things like a chill, fire, darkness, or panic completely covering a place.
Since ogarnąć takes a direct object, shouldn't całe wnętrze change its ending for the accusative case?
It is already in the accusative case! The phrase całe wnętrze (the entire interior) is neuter. For all neuter nouns and their adjectives, the accusative case is exactly identical to the nominative case, which is why the endings look completely unchanged here.
How does this sentence fit into a lesson about the conjunction ledwo (barely/hardly)?