Word
Te dziewczynki skaczą obok zjeżdżalni i głośno krzyczą.
Meaning
These girls are jumping next to the slide and shouting loudly.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Te dziewczynki skaczą obok zjeżdżalni i głośno krzyczą.
i
and
ten
this (m)
głośno
loudly
dziewczynka
little girl
Questions & Answers about Te dziewczynki skaczą obok zjeżdżalni i głośno krzyczą.
The lesson is about using 'dookoła' (around), but this sentence uses 'obok' (next to). Do they work the same way?
Yes! Just like dookoła, the preposition obok requires the following noun to be in the Genitive case. Many prepositions dealing with space and location share this rule, which is why we see zjeżdżalni instead of the basic dictionary form zjeżdżalnia.
How is the Genitive form 'zjeżdżalni' (slide) formed here?
The dictionary form is zjeżdżalnia, which is a feminine noun ending in -nia. To form the Genitive singular, we simply drop the final -a, leaving us with zjeżdżalni.
Why does the verb 'skakać' (to jump) become 'skaczą' for the 'they' form?
Skakać is an irregular verb that has a consonant shift in its present tense stem. The -k- turns into -cz-, creating the stem skacz-. We then add the standard 'they' ending -ą to get skaczą.
Why do we use 'te' for 'these' instead of 'ci'?
In the plural, Polish splits nouns into two groups: masculine-personal (groups with at least one male) and non-masculine-personal (everything else). Since dziewczynki (girls) falls into the second group, it takes the pronoun te. If the group included boys, we would use ci.