Breakdown of W USA nie ma tolerancji dla dyskryminacji.
mieć
to have
nie
no / not
w
in / on (a day)
dla
for
dyskryminacja
discrimination
USA
the USA
tolerancja
tolerance
Questions & Answers about W USA nie ma tolerancji dla dyskryminacji.
Why do we use dla after tolerancji instead of a preposition like na?
The abstract noun tolerancja (tolerance) specifically governs the preposition dla (for) or sometimes wobec (towards) to indicate what is being tolerated. This is its 'noun government' (rekcja). Because we used dla, the following noun dyskryminacja must be in the genitive case, making it dyskryminacji.
Why is tolerance translated as tolerancji instead of the dictionary form tolerancja?
Because of the negative existential phrase nie ma (there is no). In Polish, when you say 'there is no [X]', [X] must always take the genitive case. The genitive of the feminine noun tolerancja is tolerancji.
Why do both tolerancji and dyskryminacji end in -cji?
Both are loanwords ending in -cja in their base nominative form. A strict Polish spelling rule dictates that nouns ending in -cja always take the -cji ending in the genitive, dative, and locative singular cases.
Why doesn't USA change its ending here? Shouldn't w (in) force the locative case?
It does, but USA is an indeclinable acronym in Polish. It never changes its form regardless of the grammatical case required by the sentence. (Note that it is pronounced using Polish letter names: U-eS-A, rather than the English way).
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