Breakdown of Ten supermarket jest bardzo duży.
być
to be
ten
this (m)
bardzo
very
duży
big
supermarket
supermarket
Questions & Answers about Ten supermarket jest bardzo duży.
Why does the sentence use ten instead of to?
Here, ten means "this" and points directly to a specific masculine noun (ten supermarket). You would use to if you were saying "This is a very big supermarket" (To jest bardzo duży supermarket), where to acts generally as "this is."
How do we know the gender of a borrowed foreign word like supermarket?
Loanwords in Polish usually follow standard gender rules based on their last letter. Because supermarket ends in a consonant (-t), it acts as a regular masculine noun. This is why it takes the masculine modifiers ten and duży.
Why is the adjective duży and not duża or duże?
In Polish, adjectives must match the noun they describe in gender, case, and number. Since supermarket is a masculine noun in the nominative case (the subject of the sentence), the adjective must take the masculine nominative ending -y, making it duży.
Could I use the word wielki instead of duży here?
Yes, but it adds extra emphasis. While duży simply means "big" or "large," using wielki would mean the supermarket is "huge," "giant," or "massive."
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