Word
Mam dla niego dobrą radę i propozycję.
Meaning
I have good advice and a proposal for him.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Questions & Answers about Mam dla niego dobrą radę i propozycję.
Why do we use dla niego here instead of the Dative pronoun mu?
We use dla + Genitive to show who an object is intended for. You would use the Dative case (mu or jemu) if you were actively directing an action at him, like giving him the advice (daję mu radę). But since you just have the advice sitting there for him, dla niego is the right choice!
Why does the pronoun start with an 'n' (niego instead of jego)?
Whenever a third-person pronoun like on (he) or ona (she) comes immediately after a preposition like dla (for) or od (from), Polish adds an n- to the beginning of it. So, the Genitive pronoun jego becomes niego.
Why do we say dobrą radę i propozycję instead of dobra rada i propozycja?
These words are the direct objects of the verb mieć (to have, here mam), which means they must be in the Accusative case. For feminine words, the noun ending -a changes to -ę (radę, propozycję), and the adjective ending -a changes to -ą (dobrą).
Why does the English translation say "good advice" when the Polish implies "a good advice"?