Breakdown of Myślę, że jego opinia o niej jest fałszywa.
być
to be
ona
she / it (f)
myśleć
to think
że
that
jego
his, its
o
about
opinia
the opinion
fałszywy
false
Questions & Answers about Myślę, że jego opinia o niej jest fałszywa.
Why do we use o niej instead of o ona or o jej?
The preposition o (when it means 'about') requires the Locative case. The Locative form of ona (she) is niej. Notice how third-person pronouns often get an 'n' added to the beginning when they directly follow a preposition!
The word for 'his' is jego. Why doesn't it have a feminine ending to match the feminine noun opinia?
In Polish, the third-person possessive pronouns jego (his), jej (her), and ich (their) are frozen. They never change their endings to match the noun they describe, so jego stays exactly the same even next to the feminine noun opinia.
The verb myśleć (to think) often takes the preposition o. Why isn't it Myślę o at the beginning of the sentence?
When you want to say 'I am thinking about something', you use myśleć o + Locative. But here, you are introducing a completely new clause: 'I think that...'. For this, you use myśleć, że followed by a regular sentence, just like in English.
Why does the adjective at the end take the form fałszywa?
The word fałszywa (false) describes the noun opinia (opinion). Because opinia is a feminine noun in the subject position (Nominative case), the adjective takes the feminine ending -a.
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