Questions & Answers about Ten stary obraz to sztuka.
Why is the word to used here instead of jest for "is"?
When you connect two nouns to say "A is B" (like "painting is art"), you can just use to and keep both words in their basic dictionary form. If you used jest, you would have to change sztuka into a different grammatical case (the Instrumental).
Why do we say Ten stary and not Ta stara?
The noun obraz (painting) is masculine. Because of this, the words describing it must also be in their masculine forms: ten (this) and stary (old).
How would I say "I like this old painting" using the grammar from our current lesson?
You would say Podoba mi się ten stary obraz. In Polish, this literally translates to "This old painting is pleasing to me." The phrase ten stary obraz remains in the basic dictionary form because it is the subject doing the pleasing, and mi is the short pronoun for "to me".