Questions & Answers about Lis je kury.
The word je is so short! What is its infinitive form?
The infinitive is jeść (to eat). It is an irregular verb. In the present tense, "I eat" is jem, and "he/she/it eats" is je.
I always mix up "eats" and "is" in Polish. How do I tell them apart?
They do look very similar! je means "eats" (from the verb jeść). jest means "is" (from the verb być). A good trick is to remember that the longer word (jest) means "is", and the shorter one (je) means "eats".
Why is the word for hens kury here instead of kurę?
kury is plural, meaning "hens". The singular accusative form (for eating just one hen) would be kurę. Since the fox is eating multiple hens, we use the accusative plural, which for feminine nouns looks exactly the same as the basic nominative plural (kury).
Why doesn't lis change its ending in this sentence?
lis (fox) is the subject of the sentence, meaning it is the one doing the action. The subject always takes the nominative case, which is the basic dictionary form of the word, so it doesn't need a special ending here.
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