polski · A1 · vocabulary · 4 minutes
Classroom language
Follow plural instructions and ask for clarification.
Understand the choice
Classroom words become active through commands: open a book, write a sentence, read a word, ask a question, and give an answer.
Core rule: The plural informal imperative often ends -cie; direct objects take accusative and w + locative gives writing location.
Notice it in context
Otwórzcie książkę i napiszcie zdanie w zeszycie.
Open the book and write the sentence in the notebook.
Otwórzcie/napiszcie address a group; książkę and zdanie are objects; w zeszycie locative.
Nie rozumiem tego słowa i zadaję pytanie.
I do not understand this word and ask a question.
Negated rozumieć takes genitive tego słowa; zadawać pytanie is fixed.
Odpowiedź jest napisana na tablicy.
The answer is written on the board.
Odpowiedź is subject; na tablicy is locative.
What to remember
- Zadać pytanie is ask a question; zapytać kogoś asks someone.
- Tablica is a classroom board; stół is a table.
Common trap: Do not keep wy in an ordinary command: otwórzcie książkę.