"Nie chcemy wojny, chcemy pokoju."
Translation:We do not want war, we want peace.
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I would appreciate it if someone could explain why it's "pokoju" and not "pokój" since it's a positive direct object (so I would assume biernik). Thanks!
That's a complicated one even for natives - at least explaining this. This is the best that we have arrived at so far.
I don't know if this helps! From A Grammar of Contemporary Polish, Oscar Swan
chcieć want tends to take the Accusative with specific objects and the Genitive with vague and abstract objects:
Czego chcesz? What do you want (anyway)?
Co chcesz? What (specific thing) do you want?
In Proto-Slavic *pokòjь used to mean "rest", as in rest from work and other tedious activities.
Your room is where you used to rest after work (pre-pandemic). If we interpret war us 'unrest', then 'rest' will be the opposite of it, meaning 'peace'.
Pokoju means "Room" Spokoju means "Peace" I know this because I'm Polish myself.
