Breakdown of Nie lubimy mieszkać w popularnych miastach.
nie
no / not
mieszkać
to live
lubić
to like
w
in / on (a day)
miasto
city
popularny
popular
Questions & Answers about Nie lubimy mieszkać w popularnych miastach.
Why does miasto change to miastach in this sentence?
The preposition w (in) pointing to a location requires the Locative case. Since we are talking about plural "cities", we need the Locative plural. The great news for the Locative plural is that almost every single noun, no matter its gender, takes the ending -ach. So the neuter noun miasto becomes miastach.
Why does the adjective popularnych end in -ych?
Adjectives must match their nouns. In the Locative plural, adjectives take the ending -ych (or -ich if the word stem ends in k or g). Because popularny has a hard stem, it simply takes -ych to agree with miastach.
Could I use żyć instead of mieszkać for "living" here?
Not in this context. Mieszkać specifically means "to reside" or "to have an address somewhere." Żyć means "to be alive" or refers to your life in a general, existential way. When talking about the physical place where you dwell (like a city or apartment), always use mieszkać.
Why is mieszkać left in its dictionary form?
Just like in English ("we like to live"), when you pair these two verbs, only the first one gets conjugated. Lubimy tells us that "we" are the ones doing the liking, so the second verb, mieszkać, stays in the infinitive (unconjugated) form.
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