Breakdown of Medycyna i nauka są ważne, żeby stworzyć lekarstwo.
być
to be
i
and
ważny
important
lekarstwo
medicine
żeby
so that, in order to
medycyna
medicine (science)
stworzyć
to create
nauka
science
Questions & Answers about Medycyna i nauka są ważne, żeby stworzyć lekarstwo.
Why is the adjective ważne used instead of ważni?
Medycyna and nauka are both feminine nouns. Together, they form a "non-masculine-personal" plural subject. Because there are no men in this group, the adjective takes the non-masculine-personal plural ending -e (ważne) instead of the masculine-personal ending -i (ważni).
Why do we need żeby here? Doesn't the infinitive stworzyć already mean "to create"?
In English, you can link an adjective directly to an infinitive ("important to create"). In Polish, to express purpose or a goal after an adjective like ważne, you generally need to use the conjunction żeby (in order to) followed by the infinitive. Literally, the sentence says "Medicine and science are important in order to create a cure."
The sentence uses both medycyna and lekarstwo. What is the difference between them?
Medycyna refers strictly to the scientific field, study, or practice of medicine. When you want to talk about a physical medicine, medication, drug, or cure that you take, you must use lekarstwo (or its shorter synonym, lek).
How could I express a similar idea using dzięki (thanks to) from our current lesson?
You could rephrase the sentence to say: Dzięki medycynie i nauce można stworzyć lekarstwo (Thanks to medicine and science, it is possible to create a cure). Notice that dzięki forces the nouns into the Dative case, changing medycyna to medycynie and nauka to nauce.
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