Word
Mój kotek jest mniejszy od twojego pieska.
Meaning
My kitty is smaller than your doggy.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Mój kotek jest mniejszy od twojego pieska.
How do the diminutives kotek and piesek work here?
Both are masculine nouns. To make them sound small or cute, we add the suffix -ek to the base words kot (cat) and pies (dog).
Why is the word for 'doggy' spelled pieska instead of 'pieseka' at the end of the sentence?
The suffix -ek almost always has a 'fleeting e'. This means that when we add a grammar ending to the word, the e drops out. So the base form is piesek, but with the genitive case ending -a, it shrinks to pieska.
Why is twojego pieska in the genitive case?
In Polish, when you compare two things using the preposition od (meaning 'than' in this context), the noun and its modifiers that follow must take the genitive case.
What is the base form of the adjective mniejszy?
The base form is mały (small). Just like English has 'good' and 'better', some Polish adjectives change completely when making comparisons. Mniejszy is the irregular comparative form meaning 'smaller'.