Breakdown of Z przyjemnością zjem z wami obiad.
obiad
dinner / lunch (midday meal)
z
with
zjeść
to eat (perfective)
z przyjemnością
with pleasure (accepting)
Questions & Answers about Z przyjemnością zjem z wami obiad.
Why use zjem instead of będę jeść or będę jadł/jadła for the future tense?
Zjem is the perfective form of the verb jeść (to eat). You use it here because you are talking about a single, completed action—eating a specific lunch from start to finish. You would use the imperfective będę jeść if you meant "I will be in the process of eating".
The word z appears twice in this sentence. Does it do the same thing both times?
Yes, both times it translates to "with" and forces the following word into the Instrumental case. In z przyjemnością (with pleasure), it is used to describe how you do the action. In z wami (with you plural), it describes who you are doing the action with.
Why does the noun przyjemność change to przyjemnością?
The preposition z requires the Instrumental case. Przyjemność (pleasure) is a feminine noun, even though it ends in a consonant rather than the typical -a. Feminine nouns ending in a consonant take the ending -ą in the Instrumental case.
Obiad is the direct object being eaten. Why doesn't its ending change?
Direct objects take the Accusative case. However, obiad (lunch) is a masculine inanimate noun. For these types of nouns, the Accusative form looks exactly the same as the basic dictionary form, so the word doesn't change.
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