"Why are you not cleaning the kitchen?"
Translation:Dlaczego nie sprzątasz w kuchni?
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Why is it 'w kuchni'? To me that reads as 'in the kitchen' instead of just 'the kitchen itself'. As in, the person is in the kitchen, and cleaning something there (like the dishes or whatever).
955
So how would one say "i'm cleaning in the kitchen" (mopping the floor, dusting) vs "i'm cleaning the fridge in the kitchen" (as in "I am in the kitchen, cleaning something that is not the kitchen itself")? Are both 'w kuchni'?
The first one is either "Sprzątam kuchnię" or "Sprzątam w kuchni", and the second... I'd definitely just say "Sprzątam lodówkę/w lodówce" without mentioning the kitchen at all. And if for some reason the kitchen is really important (but where else would you have your fridge? maybe in the cellar sometimes, but that's probably not the main fridge) then I guess I can add "w kuchni" at the end.