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Ten obiad jest bardzo dobry, dziękuję.

Ten obiad jest bardzo dobry, dziękuję.
This lunch is very good, thank you.
From Lesson 27:Present tense verbs 3 (-ę, -esz)·Polish

Questions & Answers about Ten obiad jest bardzo dobry, dziękuję.

Why does the word for "thank you" end in -uję?
The dictionary form of "to thank" is dziękować. This belongs to a special group of verbs ending in -ować. In the present tense, that -ow- part changes to -uj-. To say "I thank" (which translates to "thank you"), you add the "I" ending -ę, giving us dziękuję.
Why do we use ten instead of to for "this"?
The word obiad is a masculine noun. In Polish, words like "this" have to match the gender of the noun they point to. Ten is the masculine form. If you were pointing to a neuter noun like wino (wine), you would use to wino.
Why is it dobry and not dobrze?
Dobry is an adjective meaning "good", used here to describe the noun obiad. It takes the masculine ending -y to match the noun. Dobrze is an adverb meaning "well" or "fine", which is used to describe actions or general states rather than describing a specific noun.
I don't see the word for "I" here. How do we know who is thanking?
The ending of the verb gives it away! The -ę at the end of dziękuję specifically means "I am doing the thanking". In Polish, you usually drop the pronoun ja (I) unless you want to add special emphasis.

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