Word
Pasażerowie przyjeżdżają na stację, a my chcemy ich przywitać.
Meaning
The passengers are arriving at the station, and we want to welcome them.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Pasażerowie przyjeżdżają na stację, a my chcemy ich przywitać.
chcieć
to want
my
we
a
and / whereas (contrast)
na
on, at / to (motion toward) / for (a meal) / for (waiting for)
Questions & Answers about Pasażerowie przyjeżdżają na stację, a my chcemy ich przywitać.
The lesson is about perfective verbs for arrival, so why does this sentence use the verb przyjeżdżają?
The prefix przy- always indicates arrival. While this lesson introduces perfective verbs for completed arrivals (like przyjechać), this sentence describes an action happening right now. Therefore, it uses the imperfective equivalent przyjeżdżać (to be arriving by vehicle).
Why is it na stację instead of na stacji?
Because the passengers are moving towards a destination. When expressing motion to a place with na, the noun takes the accusative case (stację). If they were already standing and waiting at the station, you would use the locative case (na stacji).
Why does the plural of pasażer get the -owie ending?
The -owie ending is used for masculine personal nouns (groups of people that include at least one man). It is commonly attached to professions, family members, or roles, like pasażerowie (passengers), synowie (sons), or uczniowie (students).
Why does the sentence use a for 'and' instead of i?