Word
W zupie jest dużo soli.
Meaning
There is a lot of salt in the soup.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Questions & Answers about W zupie jest dużo soli.
Why is the word for salt soli instead of its basic form sól?
This is exactly what the current lesson is about! Words that indicate an amount, like dużo (a lot), mało (few/little), and trochę (a little bit), require the noun following them to take the Genitive case. Because we are saying a lot of salt, sól changes to its Genitive form, soli.
I noticed the letter ó in sól changed to a regular o in soli. Is this normal?
Yes! This is a very common spelling pattern in Polish. The vowel ó often appears in the basic dictionary form of a word, but it usually changes to a regular o as soon as you add grammatical endings to the word.
Why doesn't the Polish sentence use a word for 'there' to say 'there is'?
English uses 'there' as a placeholder to start sentences, but Polish doesn't need it. To say 'there is', you just use the verb jest (is). Polish sentences often establish the location first, so literally this sentence says 'In the soup is a lot of salt'.
Why does zupa (soup) become zupie at the beginning of the sentence?