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Gdyby nie ten lunapark, nie myślelibyśmy o tym, co znaczy emocjonujący weekend.
Meaning
If it weren't for this amusement park, we wouldn't think about what a thrilling weekend means.
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Breakdown of Gdyby nie ten lunapark, nie myślelibyśmy o tym, co znaczy emocjonujący weekend.
to
this
nie
no / not
ten
this (m)
co
what
Questions & Answers about Gdyby nie ten lunapark, nie myślelibyśmy o tym, co znaczy emocjonujący weekend.
Why do we say o tym, co instead of just o co?
This is how Polish handles prepositions before indirect questions. The verb myśleć (to think) requires the preposition o followed by the Locative case. Because we cannot attach a preposition directly to a question word like co in this structure, we insert the pronoun to as a bridge. We decline to into the Locative (tym) to match o, resulting in the correlative o tym, co (literally: 'about that, what').
I thought negation requires the Genitive case. Why is it ten lunapark (Nominative) after nie?
You are right that standard negated verbs take the Genitive case, but gdyby nie (if it weren't for) is a fixed conditional expression. It acts as an exception and always takes the Nominative case. Therefore, we use the Nominative ten lunapark instead of the Genitive tego lunaparku.
Could I use oznacza instead of znaczy in this sentence?
Yes, you could. Both znaczy and oznacza mean 'means' or 'signifies' in this context. Znaczy is more common in everyday speech, while oznacza sounds slightly more formal, but they are completely interchangeable here.
I get confused by adjectives related to emotion. Why use emocjonujący here and not emocjonalny?