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Dużo zdrowia i słodyczy Weronika Tobie życzy.



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Well she is sending me a big something....but what....?????
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Wishes of lots of health and sweetness (as in joy) from Weronika to you.
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Awww thats nice....thanks Magdalena...
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Grammatical question:

Why dużo (an adverb)? Doesn't make sense in my head.

Why not, Weronika życzy ci dużego zdrowia (...)?
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because she's not wishing him "big health", she's wishing him "a lot of (dużo) health" :-)

compare to: dużo makaronu (a lot of pasta), dużo wody (a lot of water) etc.

I may be completely muddled in my grammar terminology here, but "dużo" AFAIK is not an adverb.
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Magdalena:
I may be completely muddled in my grammar terminology here, but "dużo" AFAIK is not an adverb.

I must admit, I always thought dużo was an adverb from the adjective duży. ;)
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Vincent:
I always thought dużo was an adverb from the adjective duży

Fur sure it is. But this must be some special construction where dużo is used like a "semi-adjective", because this use of dużo is not like a normal adjective - it's not declined by gender or case. It's used like sth "between" an adverb and an adjective.
Let's check this. :)
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SzwedwPolsce:
eronika życzy ci dużego zdrowia (...)?

agree that it is because she is wishing 'much health'.
there must be some uncountable aspect here. some less-specific-in-terms-of-amount, more-meaningful-in-terms-of-quality thing going on here. (forgive me - i am an instinctual learner now - and have no excuse to offer for that, given my education, except that it feels good)
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natasia:
it feels good

Many things feel good... hehe. :)
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SzwedwPolsce:
Many things feel good... hehe. :)

don't remind me! - i was attempting to be purely cerebral for once in a while ; )
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Magdalena:
because she's not wishing him "big health", she's wishing him "a lot of (dużo) health" :-)
compare to: dużo makaronu (a lot of pasta), dużo wody (a lot of water) etc.

Now I realized that this a rare situation where the adverb appears in a situation where an adjective should be expected.

So probably we can say it's something in-between an adjective and an adverb.
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