Word
Ten nowy samochód jest produkowany w naszej fabryce.
Meaning
This new car is produced in our factory.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Ten nowy samochód jest produkowany w naszej fabryce.
być
to be
samochód
car
ten
this (m)
nowy
new
Questions & Answers about Ten nowy samochód jest produkowany w naszej fabryce.
How is the passive participle produkowany formed from the verb produkować?
To form the passive participle for verbs ending in -ać or -ować, we take the infinitive produkować (to produce), drop the final -ć, and add the suffix -ny. This gives us the base form produkowany.
Why does produkowany end in -y here?
Passive adjectival participles act exactly like regular adjectives, meaning they must match the noun they describe in gender, number, and case. Since samochód is masculine, singular, and in the nominative case, the participle takes the masculine ending -y. If it were describing a feminine noun, it would be produkowana.
Produkowany comes from the imperfective verb produkować. How does this affect the meaning compared to a perfective verb?
Because it is imperfective, jest produkowany describes an ongoing or regular process (it is being produced, or it is generally produced here). If we used the perfective version wyprodukować, the participle wyprodukowany would mean the production process is completely finished (it has been produced).
Why does the word for factory change to fabryce at the end of the sentence?