Word
Rolnik idący wśród pól to mój sąsiad.
Meaning
The farmer walking among the fields is my neighbor.
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Questions & Answers about Rolnik idący wśród pól to mój sąsiad.
How do we form idący from the verb iść?
Active adjectival participles are built from the "they" form (3rd person plural) of the present tense. For iść (to walk), "they walk" is idą. You take that whole word and just add -cy to get the masculine nominative form idący (walking).
Why does idący have the -y ending in this sentence?
The suffix -ący creates an active adjectival participle, which means a verb is turned into an adjective that describes what someone is currently doing. Just like any adjective, it has to match the noun it describes in gender, number, and case. Since rolnik (farmer) is masculine nominative singular, the participle takes the matching masculine ending -y, giving us idący.
Why is the word for "fields" spelled pól here?
The preposition wśród (among) forces the following noun to be in the genitive case. We are talking about multiple fields, so we need the genitive plural of the neuter noun pole. In the genitive plural, pole drops its final vowel and the root vowel changes from o to ó, becoming pól.
Why does the sentence use to instead of jest for the word "is"?