Questions & Answers about W długich podróżach zawsze śpię.
Why is the adjective długich and not długych?
In the locative plural, adjectives take either -ych or -ich. Normally, we use -ych, but after the letters k or g (like in the base word długi), we must use -ich to keep the pronunciation soft. So it becomes długich.
The word for journey (podróż) is feminine. Does it get a special feminine ending in the locative plural?
No! The great thing about the locative plural is that all nouns—masculine, feminine, and neuter—take the exact same ending: -ach. So podróż easily becomes podróżach.
Why does the Polish sentence use w (in) when the English translation says "on"?
Prepositions rarely match up perfectly between languages. While we say "on a journey" in English, Polish treats a journey as an experience or timeframe you are inside of, so it uses w (in) followed by the locative case.
I recognize the verb is to sleep (spać), but why does it start with śp- here?
Spać has a slight spelling change in its present tense forms. The s softens to ś in the first person (śpię - I sleep), and this soft ś stays in all the other present tense forms too (like śpisz - you sleep).