Breakdown of Równość jest ważną wartością w UE.
być
to be
w
in / on (a day)
ważny
important
wartość
value
UE
the EU
równość
equality
Questions & Answers about Równość jest ważną wartością w UE.
Both równość and wartość end in -ość. What does this tell us about these words?
The suffix -ość is heavily used to form abstract nouns from adjectives (like równy to równość and warty to wartość). It functions like the English suffixes 'ity' or 'ness'. Nouns ending in -ość are always feminine, which is why the sentence uses the feminine instrumental form ważną wartością.
Since this lesson is about noun government, what case would równość dictate if we added another noun to say 'equality of opportunities'?
Like many abstract nouns denoting a state or quality, równość governs the genitive case (dopełniacz) when modifying another noun. To say 'equality of opportunities', you use the genitive plural: równość szans. It can also govern prepositions, such as równość wobec prawa (equality before the law).
Why is ważną wartością in the instrumental case here?
This is a core rule for the verb być (to be) that is always good to remember. When you link a subject to a noun phrase, that predicate phrase takes the instrumental case (narzędnik). The nominative ważna wartość becomes ważną wartością.
The nominative word is wartość. Why does it change to wartością in the instrumental rather than keeping the ć?
In Polish orthography, the letter ć is only used at the end of a word or before a consonant. When a vowel ending like the instrumental -ą is added, the soft sound is spelled with ci instead. Thus, wartość becomes wartością.
Does the acronym UE decline here after the preposition w?
Written acronyms like UE are generally undeclined and read simply as the letters 'u-e'. However, the preposition w dictates the locative case (miejscownik) for locations. If you expand the acronym when reading aloud, it must decline into the locative: w Unii Europejskiej.
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