Nikt nie będzie pracował od poniedziałku do czwartku.
Nobody will be working from Monday to Thursday.
Breakdown of Nikt nie będzie pracował od poniedziałku do czwartku.
być
to be
nie
no / not
pracować
to work
do
to
poniedziałek
Monday
czwartek
Thursday
od
from
nikt
nobody
Questions & Answers about Nikt nie będzie pracował od poniedziałku do czwartku.
Why do poniedziałek and czwartek change to poniedziałku and czwartku?
The prepositions od (from) and do (to) both require the Genitive case. For these masculine days of the week, the Genitive ending is -u. Notice that czwartek also loses its e (a fleeting vowel) when adding the ending, becoming czwartku.
Why is there a nie after nikt? Doesn't that mean "nobody will not work"?
Polish requires double negation. Whenever you use a negative word like nikt (nobody) or nic (nothing), you must also put nie before the verb. So while English says "Nobody will work," Polish grammatically requires "Nobody will not work."
Could I say nikt nie będzie pracować instead of pracował?
Yes! To form the imperfective future tense, you can pair będzie with either the infinitive (pracować) or the third-person past tense form (pracował). Both are completely correct and mean the same thing, though the past tense form requires you to match the gender.
Why is the masculine form pracował used if "nobody" could include women?
The pronoun nikt is grammatically masculine singular. Even if you are referring entirely to a group of women, any past-tense verbs paired with nikt must take the masculine singular form.
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