Word
Karetka wiezie pacjenta do szpitala.
Meaning
The ambulance is transporting a patient to the hospital.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Karetka wiezie pacjenta do szpitala.
szpital
hospital
do
to
pacjent
the patient (m)
wieźć
to transport by vehicle (unidirectional)
Questions & Answers about Karetka wiezie pacjenta do szpitala.
Why do we use wiezie here instead of the multidirectional form wozi?
wiezie comes from wieźć, the unidirectional verb for transporting someone or something by vehicle. We use it here because the ambulance is making a specific, single trip to the hospital right now. If we were making a general statement about what ambulances do every day, we would use the multidirectional verb wozić.
Can I just use jedzie (is driving) since the ambulance is a vehicle?
You could say Karetka jedzie do szpitala (The ambulance is going to the hospital), but only if you drop the patient from the sentence! Because the ambulance is actively carrying a passenger, you must use wieźć. Use jechać when talking about just the vehicle moving, and wieźć when talking about the vehicle transporting cargo or a passenger.
Why is the patient written as pacjenta instead of pacjent?
The patient is the direct object being transported, so the noun takes the Accusative case. Because pacjent is a masculine animate noun (a living person or animal), its Accusative form looks exactly like its Genitive form, which adds an -a to the end.
Why does the word for hospital change to szpitala?
The preposition do, meaning 'to' a destination, always requires the noun following it to be in the Genitive case. For the masculine inanimate noun szpital, the Genitive ending is -a.