I'm teaching myself about cases and want to prepare a kind of reference and am wondering if everything on the below section looks ok?
Polish has seven cases. Here's the basic idea:
The nominative case indicates the subject of a verb:
The man went to the store.
Nominative (Mianownik)
co? kto? (what? who?)
The genitive case indicates the possessor of another noun, which in English is indicated by 's or of.
The genitive is also used for the direct object in negatives sentences:
A country's citizens must defend its honour.
I did not buy the car.
Genitive (Dopełniacz)
czego? kogo? (what? who?)
The dative case indicates the indirect object of a verb:
We told her the truth.
The man gave his daughter a book.
I made them dinner.
Dative (Celownik)
czemu? komu? (to whom? for whom?)
The accusative case indicates the direct object of a verb:
I bought the car.
Accusative (Biernik)
co? kogo? (what? who?)
The instrumental case indicates a tool/means with which an action is performed:
He shot it with the gun.
Instrumental (Narzędnik)
z czym? z kim? (with what? with whom?)
The locative case indicates a location:
I live in China.
Locative (Miejscownik)
o czym? o kim? (about what? about whom?)
The vocative case indicates the person you are addressing:
Professor, are you O.K.?
Vocative (Wołacz)
functions de facto as nominative
Basically I think my translations are a bit dodgy, please correct me.
Thanks.
Polish has seven cases. Here's the basic idea:
The nominative case indicates the subject of a verb:
The man went to the store.
Nominative (Mianownik)
co? kto? (what? who?)
The genitive case indicates the possessor of another noun, which in English is indicated by 's or of.
The genitive is also used for the direct object in negatives sentences:
A country's citizens must defend its honour.
I did not buy the car.
Genitive (Dopełniacz)
czego? kogo? (what? who?)
The dative case indicates the indirect object of a verb:
We told her the truth.
The man gave his daughter a book.
I made them dinner.
Dative (Celownik)
czemu? komu? (to whom? for whom?)
The accusative case indicates the direct object of a verb:
I bought the car.
Accusative (Biernik)
co? kogo? (what? who?)
The instrumental case indicates a tool/means with which an action is performed:
He shot it with the gun.
Instrumental (Narzędnik)
z czym? z kim? (with what? with whom?)
The locative case indicates a location:
I live in China.
Locative (Miejscownik)
o czym? o kim? (about what? about whom?)
The vocative case indicates the person you are addressing:
Professor, are you O.K.?
Vocative (Wołacz)
functions de facto as nominative
Basically I think my translations are a bit dodgy, please correct me.
Thanks.