Breakdown of Ten bezrobotny szuka pracy.
ten
this (m)
praca
work
szukać
to look for
bezrobotny
unemployed person (m)
Questions & Answers about Ten bezrobotny szuka pracy.
Why does bezrobotny mean "unemployed person" here, and does it decline like a normal noun?
Bezrobotny literally means "unemployed", but here it acts as a noun. Polish often uses adjectives to represent people this way (like znajomy for "acquaintance" or dorosły for "adult"). Even though it acts as a noun, it still takes adjective endings when you decline it for different cases. Here it is in the nominative (subject) case.
How would this sentence change if the unemployed person were a woman?
What is the plural of ten bezrobotny if we are talking about a group of unemployed people?
You would say ci bezrobotni (these unemployed people). Since we are talking about a group that includes at least one man, we use the masculine personal plural. The adjective takes the -i ending (with the ending -tny softening to -tni), and ten becomes ci.
Why is the word for job/work pracy instead of pracę?