Breakdown of Bogaci sportowcy chcą mieszkać w Polsce.
chcieć
to want
mieszkać
to live
w
in / on (a day)
Polska
Poland
Questions & Answers about Bogaci sportowcy chcą mieszkać w Polsce.
Why is it bogaci and not bogate?
Bogaci is the virile (masculine personal) plural form of the adjective bogaty (rich). Because sportowcy (athletes) is a group that includes at least one male person, we must use the virile form. If we were talking about non-virile nouns, like rich women (bogate kobiety) or rich cities (bogate miasta), we would use bogate.
Why does the spelling change from bogaty to bogaci?
When creating virile plural adjectives, the ending often changes sound and spelling to make it easier to say. For adjectives ending in -ty (like bogaty), the t softens to c before we add the plural i. Therefore, bogaty becomes bogaci.
The singular for athlete is sportowiec. Why is the plural sportowcy?
Polish nouns ending in -ec often have a 'fleeting e' that disappears when you add plural endings. So sportowiec loses its e (becoming sportowc-) and adds the virile plural ending -y, giving us sportowcy.
Why does the verb chcą end in -ą instead of -ę?