Breakdown of Nasi senatorowie i posłowie muszą dzisiaj głosować.
i
and
dzisiaj
today
nasz
our
musieć
to have to
głosować
to vote
senator
the senator (m)
poseł
the member of parliament (m)
Questions & Answers about Nasi senatorowie i posłowie muszą dzisiaj głosować.
Why do senatorowie and posłowie end in -owie instead of the usual -i or -y plural endings?
Because they refer to prestigious titles and professions. In Polish, many words for important roles, titles, and male family members use the special virile (masculine personal) suffix -owie in the nominative plural.
Where did the e from poseł go in the plural form posłowie?
The word poseł has what is called a fleeting e. This is a vowel in the dictionary form of a word that disappears when you add a suffix to the end of it. So, poseł loses its e before the -owie ending, becoming posłowie.
Why do we use nasi for our instead of nasze?
Nasi is the virile (masculine personal) plural form of nasz (our). Since senators and members of parliament are groups that include men, the describing word must match this category. If you were talking about non-human masculine nouns, feminine nouns, or neuter nouns, you would use nasze.
Why is głosować not conjugated to match the plural subject?
Because it follows muszą (they must). Just like in English, when you use a verb of obligation like musieć (to have to / must), only the first verb is conjugated. The action that must be done stays in its basic dictionary form, the infinitive, which is głosować here.
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