Breakdown of Dziennikarze są znani i mają dużo pieniędzy.
być
to be
i
and
mieć
to have
dużo
a lot / much
pieniądze
money
dziennikarz
journalist
znany
known
Questions & Answers about Dziennikarze są znani i mają dużo pieniędzy.
Why is the adjective znani used here instead of znane?
Znani is the masculine personal (virile) plural form of the adjective znany (known). Because dziennikarze (journalists) describes a group of people that includes at least one man, we must use this virile form. If the group was entirely female, we would use the non-virile form znane.
How does the plural noun dziennikarze get its ending?
The singular noun is dziennikarz. Even though it is a masculine personal noun, it ends in the "soft" sound -rz. Masculine nouns ending in soft consonants usually take the -e ending in the plural instead of the typical -i or -y.
Why is the word for money written as pieniędzy instead of the dictionary form pieniądze?
The word dużo (a lot) acts as a quantity word. In Polish, whenever you talk about an amount using words like dużo or mało (a little), the noun that follows must change into the Genitive case. Pieniędzy is the Genitive form of pieniądze.
Where is the word for "they" in the second half of the sentence?
It is built directly into the verb! Mają is the "they" form of mieć (to have). In Polish, you usually drop pronouns like oni (they) because the verb's ending already makes it perfectly clear who is doing the action.
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