Breakdown of To ciche przedmieście jest daleko od centrum.
to
this
być
to be
daleko
far
cichy
quiet
centrum
the center
od
from
przedmieście
the suburb
Questions & Answers about To ciche przedmieście jest daleko od centrum.
The current lesson is about the preposition poza. Why does this sentence use daleko od instead of poza?
While poza centrum means outside the city center (which could be right on its border), daleko od centrum emphasizes physical distance, meaning far from the center. You would use poza to simply state that the suburb is beyond the center's limits.
Doesn't the preposition od require the genitive case? Why does centrum look like it is in the nominative here?
The preposition od does indeed require the genitive case! However, centrum is a loanword from Latin. In Polish, it is indeclinable in the singular, meaning it stays as centrum in every single case, including the genitive.
What gender is the noun przedmieście, and how does that affect the rest of the sentence?
It is a neuter noun, which you can often guess from the -e ending. Because it is neuter, the demonstrative pronoun to and the adjective ciche must also be in their neuter nominative forms to match it.
Does the word przedmieście share a root with the word for city?
Yes! It is formed from the prefix przed- (before, in front of) and a form of the noun miasto (city or town). Literally, it means the area before the city, which makes perfect sense for a suburb.
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