Breakdown of Chce mi się pić po pomiarze.
chcieć
to want
pić
to drink
się
oneself
mi
to me
po
after; for (to fetch)
pomiar
measurement
Questions & Answers about Chce mi się pić po pomiarze.
Why does the sentence use chce mi się pić instead of just chcę pić?
Both mean you want to drink, but chce mi się pić is the most natural and common way to say "I am thirsty" in Polish. It uses an impersonal construction that literally means "drinking wants itself to me." You form this with the 3rd-person singular verb (chce), the reflexive pronoun (się), and the person feeling the desire in the dative case (mi for "to me").
The preposition po means "after" here. Which grammatical case does it take?
When po means "after" (referring to time or a sequence of events), it is always followed by the locative case. That is why the base noun pomiar (measurement) changes its form in this sentence.
How exactly does pomiar turn into pomiarze in the locative case?
For masculine inanimate nouns ending in a hard consonant like -r, the locative case adds the ending -e. However, adding -e causes the final consonant to soften. In Polish, the hard r softens to rz. Therefore, pomiar + e becomes pomiarze.
Could I use jestem spragniony to say "I am thirsty" instead?
Yes, jestem spragniony (for a male) or jestem spragniona (for a female) also means "I am thirsty." However, chce mi się pić is much more common in everyday, casual conversation, while spragniony can sound a bit more formal or dramatic, similar to saying "I am parched" in English.
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