Word
Dodała liczi i trochę chili do napoju.
Meaning
She added lychee and a little bit of chili to the drink.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Dodała liczi i trochę chili do napoju.
i
and
trochę
a little / some
do
to
napój
drink, beverage
Questions & Answers about Dodała liczi i trochę chili do napoju.
Why don't the words liczi and chili change their endings in this sentence?
They are indeclinable loanwords. In Polish, many foreign words ending in vowels like -i, -u, or -o (such as liczi, chili, or kiwi) don't fit the standard noun declension patterns. They keep the exact same spelling no matter what grammatical case the sentence requires.
Even though they don't change form, what cases are liczi and chili acting as grammatically?
Liczi is in the Accusative case because it is the direct object of the verb dodała (she added). Chili is in the Genitive case because it directly follows the quantity word trochę (a little bit). If you replaced them with regular Polish nouns, you would have to apply those specific case endings.
Why is the word for drink spelled napoju instead of napój here?
The preposition do (to/into) always forces the following noun into the Genitive case. The basic dictionary form is napój, and its Genitive is napoju. Notice how the ó changes to a regular o before adding the ending, which is a very common spelling shift in Polish noun declensions.
Could I use the verb dodawała instead of dodała?