Word
Gdzieś na południu nadchodzi nowa fala upałów.
Meaning
Somewhere in the south, a new heat wave is approaching.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Breakdown of Gdzieś na południu nadchodzi nowa fala upałów.
nowy
new
na
on, at / to (motion toward) / for (a meal) / for (waiting for)
gdzieś
somewhere
południe
south
Questions & Answers about Gdzieś na południu nadchodzi nowa fala upałów.
Why do we use na in na południu instead of w for 'in'?
In Polish, compass directions always take the preposition na rather than w when talking about a location. Since południe means 'south' (and also 'noon'), 'in the south' is na południu. The noun is in the Locative case because it answers the question 'where?'.
What case is upałów and why is it used here?
It is the Genitive plural form of the masculine noun upał (heat). This ties into your current practice with the Genitive case! Besides being used after prepositions like według, the Genitive is used to link two nouns together to mean 'of'. So fala upałów literally translates to 'a wave of heats'.
How does the word gdzieś get its meaning of 'somewhere'?
It comes from adding the suffix -ś to the question word gdzie (where). This suffix turns question words into indefinite pronouns. You will see this pattern often, such as turning kiedy (when) into kiedyś (sometime) or kto (who) into ktoś (someone).
What is the base form of the verb nadchodzi?