Questions & Answers about To okno jest daleko.
Why do we use to instead of ten or ta for "this" here?
In Polish, the word for "this" changes depending on the gender of the noun it describes. Because okno (window) ends in -o, it is a neuter noun. The neuter form of "this" is to. You would use ten for masculine nouns and ta for feminine nouns.
I learned before that to can mean "this is" or "it is". Why doesn't it mean that here?
When to is placed directly in front of a neuter noun, it simply means "this" and points out a specific object (as in to okno meaning "this window"). If you wanted to use it to introduce something, like "This is a window", you would use it as a pronoun followed by the verb: To jest okno.
The English translation says "far away", but there is no word for "away" in the Polish sentence. Is a word missing?
No, the single word daleko covers both "far" and "far away". Polish doesn't require an extra word to express the "away" part of the phrase in this context.
Could I change the word order to To jest daleko okno?
That wouldn't work for this meaning. Because you are saying "This window", the words to and okno must stay glued together to form the subject. The subject to okno (this window) comes first, followed by the verb jest (is), and then the location daleko (far away).
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