Breakdown of Pani Kowalska ma dużo kontaktów w tej branży.
pani
madam / Mrs.
mieć
to have
ten
this (m)
w
in / on (a day)
dużo
a lot / much
Kowalska
Kowalska
kontakt
contact
branża
industry
Questions & Answers about Pani Kowalska ma dużo kontaktów w tej branży.
Why is her surname Kowalska instead of Kowalski?
In Polish, surnames ending in -ski, -cki, or -dzki behave like adjectives and change their endings based on gender. Because we are talking about a woman (Pani), the standard masculine form Kowalski changes to the feminine Kowalska.
Why is the word for "contacts" written as kontaktów here?
The word dużo (a lot) expresses a quantity, which means the noun that follows it must be in the genitive case. Since we mean "a lot of contacts" (plural), we use the genitive plural. The masculine noun kontakt takes the common genitive plural ending -ów, becoming kontaktów.
What case is w tej branży, and why?
This is the locative case. The preposition w (in) requires the locative when describing a state or a static location, like being "in an industry". The demonstrative pronoun ta (this) becomes tej. The feminine noun branża becomes branży because feminine nouns ending in -ża take an -y in the locative.
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