Topic: Polish

"Your son believes this farmer."

Translation:Wasz syn wierzy temu rolnikowi.

December 18, 2015

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  • 773

why is it "rolnikowi"?

December 18, 2015
https://www.duolingo.com/PonyDesu

    wierzyć - komu? czemu? (whom? what?). You need the dative form here.

    December 18, 2015
    https://www.duolingo.com/LICA98
    • 773

    I mean why is the ending "-owi"? (and not u?)

    December 18, 2015
    https://www.duolingo.com/vytah
    • 1332

    Vast majority of masculine nouns have -owi.

    -u is used by neuter nouns and few common masculine nouns.

    December 18, 2015
    https://www.duolingo.com/PonyDesu

      rolniku? It's either locative (Mówię o rolniku - I'm talking about the farmer) or vocative (Hej, rolniku, co tu robisz? - Hey, farmer, what are you doing here?) form.

      Most have masculine nouns have the ending -owi in their dative form.

      December 18, 2015
      https://www.duolingo.com/burning_muscles
      • 5

      Temu? TEMU!?

      March 7, 2019
      https://www.duolingo.com/alik1989
      Mod

        Dative masculine singular of ten. You'll find it here in this declension table.

        March 7, 2019
        https://www.duolingo.com/Nico515253
        • 72

        This made me laugh - we all feel like this sometimes. As they say in Italian, 'Coraggio!'

        March 15, 2019

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