Breakdown of On chce mieszkać legalnie, więc jego wniosek musi zostać zaakceptowany.
on
he / it (m)
chcieć
to want
mieszkać
to live
musieć
to have to
więc
so, therefore
jego
his, its
wniosek
application
zaakceptować
to approve
zostać
to be (passive auxiliary)
legalnie
legally
Questions & Answers about On chce mieszkać legalnie, więc jego wniosek musi zostać zaakceptowany.
Why do we use zostać here instead of być for "to be accepted"?
In Polish, the passive voice uses zostać when referring to a completed, perfective action with a focus on the final result. If we used być, it would imply an ongoing, regular, or incomplete process (imperfective). Because the application needs to cross the finish line and officially get approved, we use the perfective auxiliary zostać alongside the perfective participle zaakceptowany.
Could we use swój instead of jego before wniosek?
No, you must use jego (his) here. The reflexive pronoun swój always refers back to the grammatical subject of the specific clause it is in. In the second half of this sentence, the subject is the application itself (wniosek). Since the application does not own itself, we need jego to point back to the man mentioned in the first clause.
Why does zaakceptowany end in -y?
In a passive sentence, the participle (zaakceptowany) acts just like an adjective and has to match the subject it describes. The subject of this clause is wniosek (application), which is a masculine noun. Therefore, the participle takes the standard masculine singular nominative ending -y.
Is there a reason legalnie ends in -ie instead of being legalny?
Legalnie is an adverb meaning "legally", describing how he wants to live (mieszkać). Words ending in -ny, like legalny, are adjectives that describe nouns. Since the word modifies a verb here, it takes the standard adverb ending -nie.
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