Word
Ta nowa dzielnica to dobrze zaprojektowana inwestycja.
Meaning
This new district is a well-designed investment.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of Ta nowa dzielnica to dobrze zaprojektowana inwestycja.
ta
this (f)
nowy
new
dobrze
well
to
is (linking copula)
Questions & Answers about Ta nowa dzielnica to dobrze zaprojektowana inwestycja.
Why does zaprojektowana end in -a?
It is a passive adjectival participle acting as an adjective to describe the feminine noun inwestycja. Because it acts like an adjective, it must match the noun in gender, number, and case, which here is the feminine singular Nominative.
How exactly is zaprojektowana formed from the verb for 'to design'?
It comes from the perfective verb zaprojektować. For verbs ending in -ować, we drop the -ć and add the passive participle suffix -n-, followed by the regular adjective ending. Here, we add the feminine ending -a to get zaprojektowana.
Why do we use to for 'is' instead of jest?
When saying that one noun is another noun, Polish frequently uses the word to as a link. A major feature of using to is that both nouns stay in the Nominative dictionary case, as we see here with dzielnica and inwestycja.
What if I wanted to use jest instead of to in this sentence?
If you used jest, the entire second part of the sentence would have to change to the Instrumental case because it follows the verb 'to be'. The sentence would become: Ta nowa dzielnica jest dobrze zaprojektowaną inwestycją. Both ways are perfectly natural and mean the same thing.