Breakdown of To ogromny dylemat, zwłaszcza jeśli twoja moralność zabrania takich rzeczy.
to
this
twój
your
rzecz
thing (f)
jeśli
if
taki
such, this kind of
zabraniać
to forbid
ogromny
huge
zwłaszcza
especially
dylemat
dilemma
moralność
morality
Questions & Answers about To ogromny dylemat, zwłaszcza jeśli twoja moralność zabrania takich rzeczy.
The current lesson is about "wszak". Could I use "wszak" here instead of "zwłaszcza"?
Zwłaszcza means "especially" or "particularly", focusing on a specific condition. If you replaced it with wszak (after all / as you know), it would change the meaning to "It is a huge dilemma; after all, your morality forbids such things." Zwłaszcza jeśli points out the scenario where the dilemma is worst, while wszak would turn the second half of the sentence into a rhetorical justification explaining why the dilemma exists at all.
Why is "takich rzeczy" in the genitive case?
The verb zabraniać (to forbid) is one of the Polish verbs that strongly governs the genitive case. Even though it feels like a direct object in English, in Polish you must use the genitive for the thing being forbidden. Thus, the nominative plural takie rzeczy becomes the genitive plural takich rzeczy.
Why start with "To" instead of "Ten", given that "dylemat" is a masculine noun?
When using the "This is a..." or "It is a..." construction to introduce or define a noun phrase, you always use the fixed, uninflected pronoun to, regardless of the following noun's gender. If you said Ten ogromny dylemat, it would translate merely to the fragment "This huge dilemma..." rather than the full sentence "It is a huge dilemma."
Why use the imperfective verb "zabrania" here rather than its perfective equivalent?
The imperfective zabraniać (he/she/it forbids) is used here because morality represents an ongoing, continuous state. It doesn't just forbid these things once in a completed action (which would require the perfective zabronić); it generally and permanently stands against them.
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