Word
Zanieśmy to wiadro do ogrodu.
Meaning
Let's take this bucket to the garden.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Zanieśmy to wiadro do ogrodu.
The lesson covers nieść and przynieść, but this sentence uses zanieśmy. What verb is this?
It comes from zanieść, which is a perfective motion verb. While przynieść means to bring something here, adding the prefix za- to the base verb creates zanieść, which means to take or carry something away to a specific destination.
How does the word zanieśmy translate to "let's take"?
This is the imperative (command) form for "we". To say "let's do something" in Polish, you usually add -my to the basic command form. Here, the informal command for one person is zanieś (take!), so zanieśmy means "let's take!".
What case is to wiadro (this bucket) in?
It is in the accusative case because it is the direct object (the thing being carried). Because wiadro is a neuter noun, its accusative form looks exactly the same as its basic dictionary form.
Why does ogród (garden) change to ogrodu here?
The preposition do (to/into) always forces the noun that follows it into the genitive case. When ogród takes the genitive masculine -u ending, its internal vowel ó shifts to a regular o, giving us ogrodu.