Word
W zeszłym roku byliśmy w Polsce.
Meaning
Last year we were in Poland.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of W zeszłym roku byliśmy w Polsce.
być
to be
w
in / on (a day)
Polska
Poland
w zeszłym roku
last year
Questions & Answers about W zeszłym roku byliśmy w Polsce.
Why does the sentence start with W zeszłym roku instead of just Zeszły rok?
In Polish, to express that something happened last year, you literally say in last year. Because you use the preposition w (in), the following words must take the Locative case. That is why the basic adjective zeszły changes to zeszłym and the noun rok changes to roku.
Does the word byliśmy tell us anything about the gender of the people in the group?
Yes, it does! The -liśmy ending shows that this is a masculine personal group, which means there is at least one male in the group. If the group consisted entirely of females, the verb would be byłyśmy instead.
Why is there no word for we in this sentence?
You do not need to use the pronoun my (we) because the verb ending -śmy in byliśmy already tells us exactly who was doing the action. Adding the word my is usually only done if you want to heavily emphasize who you are talking about.
Why does the name of the country change from Polska to Polsce here?