Word
Kelner poleca smaczną zupę klientce.
Meaning
The waiter recommends a tasty soup to the female customer.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Kelner poleca smaczną zupę klientce.
zupa
soup
smaczny
tasty
kelner
waiter
polecać
to recommend
Questions & Answers about Kelner poleca smaczną zupę klientce.
Why is the word for customer written as klientce here instead of klientka?
It is in the Dative case, which is used for the indirect object (the person receiving the recommendation). The base dictionary word is klientka. For feminine nouns ending in -ka, the k changes to a c in the Dative case, giving us the ending -ce.
Why is the soup smaczną zupę and not smaczna zupa?
The soup is the direct object of the sentence—it is the thing being recommended. This means it needs the Accusative case. For feminine nouns, the noun ending changes from -a to -ę (zupa becomes zupę), and the adjective ending changes from -a to -ą (smaczna becomes smaczną).
Does the verb poleca work like the word polecam that I sometimes see in reviews?
Exactly! The base verb is polecać (to recommend). Here, we use poleca because it is the third-person form (he recommends) referring to the waiter. polecam is the first-person form (I recommend).
Can I change the word order and put klientce before the soup?