Learn Polish: Szukamy nowoczesnych hoteli w centrum. - We are looking for modern hotels in the center.

The verb szukać (to look for) is a special verb that always requires its object to be in the genitive case, even in positive sentences. Since we are looking for multiple hotels, both the adjective and the noun are in the genitive plural.

How do you form the genitive plural for an adjective like nowoczesny?

For the genitive plural, adjectives almost always take the ending -ych (or -ich after certain letters). For nowoczesny (modern), we drop the -y and add -ych, resulting in nowoczesnych.

I thought masculine nouns usually end in -ów in the genitive plural. Why is it hoteli here?

While -ów is the most common genitive plural ending for masculine nouns, words ending in a soft consonant (like the -l in hotel) typically take the -i or -y ending instead. Therefore, hotel becomes hoteli.

The preposition w (in) usually makes the following noun change its ending to match the locative case. Why is centrum unchanged?