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"Dostarczamy jedzenie naszym obywatelom."
Translation:We deliver food to our citizens.
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There's a general rule of thumb where if there is a "to" in English the dative applies. So verbs like give, talk and deliver are good examples.
why not "dostarczamy jedzenie naszych obywatelom"? I thought that the plural dative of nasz was 'naszych' and not 'naszym'? What do I miss?
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You probably know this by now but for those like me who are not familiar with the dative declension . The dative nouns are formed with the following endings. In the singular Masc-owi usually and occasionally -U (bratu, kotu,panu.psu), Fem(i)e usually similar to locative. Neuter _u after dropping e or o. All dative plural nouns end in _om. For dative adjectives. masc/neuter end in-emu and fem end in -ej similar to locative. All plural dative adjectives end in ym/im.
That is great, but in this case, we have the pronoun naszym, that ends in -ym, so what would be the rule here?
Well, seems that a possessive pronoun behaves like an adjective here, it's indeed the -ym ending that was mentioned for adjectives.
Hmm, I am not really used to look at pronouns as adjectives, but I guess it fits. Thank you.
I wrote "we deliver food to our citizens", but then, it says it's wrong, and says the right answer is "we deliver food to our citizens". What?
