Breakdown of Pracujące kobiety upominają się o sprawiedliwe prawa.
kobieta
woman
pracować
to work
upominać się o
to demand (what is owed)
sprawiedliwy
fair
prawo
right
Questions & Answers about Pracujące kobiety upominają się o sprawiedliwe prawa.
Why do we use the preposition o with upominają się in this sentence?
The verb upominać się (to demand, to claim) is one of several verbs of requesting or aiming for something that must be followed by the preposition o. It links the action of demanding to the objective they want to achieve, which in this case is fair rights.
What case is sprawiedliwe prawa in, and why?
It is in the Accusative case. While the preposition o takes the Locative case when discussing a topic (like talking "about" something), verbs expressing a request or demand always make o take the Accusative case. Since prawo is a neuter noun, its plural Accusative form looks exactly the same as its Nominative form.
What kind of word is pracujące? It looks like it is built from the verb pracować.
Exactly! It is an active adjectival participle, which is a verb acting like an adjective. You create it by taking the "they" form of the verb in the present tense (pracują), adding -c-, and then adding standard adjective endings. Here, pracujące means "working" and matches kobiety because it is plural, non-masculine-personal, and in the Nominative case.
I learned that prawo means "law" or the direction "right". How do we know it means "rights" here?
Context is everything. Prawo can mean "the law", a legal "right", or the direction "right". When pluralized as prawa and combined with an adjective like sprawiedliwe (fair) or a verb like upominać się (to demand), it almost always refers to human, civil, or workers' "rights".
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