Word
Wczoraj wieczorem zrobiliśmy sobie dobrą kolację.
Meaning
Yesterday evening we made ourselves a good dinner.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Wczoraj wieczorem zrobiliśmy sobie dobrą kolację.
dobry
good
wieczorem
in the evening
zrobić
to do / to make (someone something)
wczoraj
yesterday
Questions & Answers about Wczoraj wieczorem zrobiliśmy sobie dobrą kolację.
Why do we use sobie here instead of a regular pronoun for "us"?
Sobie is a reflexive pronoun in the Dative case, meaning "for oneself" (or myself, ourselves, etc.). Because the people doing the action are the same as the people receiving the benefit ("we made it for ourselves"), you use sobie. It is very commonly paired with verbs like zrobić (to make) or kupić (to buy) to show you are treating yourself!
Why use zrobiliśmy instead of robiliśmy?
Zrobiliśmy is the perfective (completed) form of the verb. You use it here because making the dinner was a single, finished action in the past. If you used the imperfective form robiliśmy, it would mean "we were making" (focusing on the process) or "we used to make".
Why does the ending of dobra kolacja (good dinner) change to dobrą kolację?
The dinner is the direct object of the verb zrobiliśmy (we made), so it takes the Accusative case. For feminine singular words, the noun ending changes from -a to -ę (kolację), and the adjective ending changes from -a to -ą (dobrą).
Why is it wieczorem instead of just wieczór (evening)?