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Pracownik zawsze zanosi dokumenty szefowi.

Pracownik zawsze zanosi dokumenty szefowi.
The employee always takes the documents to the boss.
From Lesson 163:Carrying and bringing (nieść, przynosić)·Polish

Questions & Answers about Pracownik zawsze zanosi dokumenty szefowi.

The lesson is about the carrying verb nieść, so why does this sentence use zanosi?
Zanosi is a form of zanosić, which is created by adding the prefix za- (indicating motion to a destination) to nosić. Because the employee does this zawsze (always), we must use the habitual stem nosić instead of the one-time, unidirectional stem nieść.
What is the difference between zanosić (used here) and przynosić?
It is all about direction. Zanosić means to take or carry something away to another place or person. Przynosić (from the lesson) means to bring something here, towards the speaker.
Why does the word for boss have the ending -owi (szefowi)?
It is in the Dative case, which is used for the indirect object of a sentence (answering to whom an action is directed). The ending -owi is the most common Dative ending for masculine nouns like szef.
Why does dokumenty look like the basic dictionary form if it is the object of the sentence?
You are right that it is the direct object and therefore takes the Accusative case! However, for inanimate (non-living) objects in the plural, the Accusative case form is always identical to the basic Nominative case form.

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