Word
Silnik w tym samochodzie jest już zużyty.
Meaning
The engine in this car is already worn out.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Silnik w tym samochodzie jest już zużyty.
być
to be
samochód
car
ten
this (m)
w
in / on (a day)
Questions & Answers about Silnik w tym samochodzie jest już zużyty.
How do we know to use the -ty suffix for zużyty instead of -ny or -ony?
This participle comes from the verb zużyć (to use up / wear out). Verbs that end in a vowel plus -ć (like -yć, -uć, or -ić) generally take the -ty suffix to form the passive participle. You just drop the -ć and add -ty, giving us zużyty.
Since zużyty is a participle, why does it end in -y in this sentence?
Passive adjectival participles behave exactly like adjectives. This means they must agree in gender, number, and case with the noun they describe. Here, it describes silnik (engine), which is a masculine singular noun in the nominative case, so the participle takes the standard masculine nominative ending -y.
Does zużyty describe an ongoing action or a finished state?
It describes a finished state. The participle zużyty comes from the perfective (completed action) verb zużyć. When we make a passive participle from a perfective verb, it describes the lasting result of an action that has already happened. The engine is fully worn out, not currently wearing down.
Why does the word samochód (car) change to samochodzie here?