Word
Dziękuję wszystkim za udział w dyskusji.
Meaning
I thank everyone for their participation in the discussion.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Dziękuję wszystkim za udział w dyskusji.
wszyscy
everyone / all (the)
w
in / on (a day)
dziękować
to thank
za
for (thanks for)
Questions & Answers about Dziękuję wszystkim za udział w dyskusji.
Why does everyone take the form wszystkim in this sentence?
The verb dziękować (to thank) always requires the Dative case for the person you are thanking. Wszystkim is the Dative form of the pronoun wszyscy (everyone).
Why do we use the preposition za here?
In Polish, when you thank someone for an action or a thing, you use the preposition za followed by the Accusative case. Here, the noun udział (participation) is in the Accusative.
Why does w trigger the Locative case for dyskusji?
The noun udział (participation) pairs with the preposition w to mean participation in. When w describes being involved in an event or being conceptually inside something, it requires the Locative case.
Why does dyskusji end in -ji instead of -i or -ii?
Feminine nouns ending in -sja (like dyskusja) drop the -a and add -i in the Locative case, resulting in -sji. You do not use a double -ii here because the j is already part of the word's stem.