trawie

Trawie is the locative singular and dative singular form of the Polish noun trawa, meaning grass. It is not a standalone lexical item, but a grammatical form used after prepositions or in constructions that require the locative or dative case.

In Polish, trawa denotes grasses in a broad sense—the plants of the family Poaceae, including lawn grasses, wild grasses, and cereal crops derived from grasses. The base word is feminine, and trawie is one of the inflected forms that appear depending on the syntactic role and the prepositions used.

Etymology: trawa comes from the Proto-Slavic root *trava-, meaning “grass, herb.” The form trawie reflects standard Polish inflection for feminine singular nouns of this stem in the locative and dative cases.

Usage notes: Trawie typically occurs after prepositions that require the locative or dative case, such as w trawie (in the grass) or na trawie (on the grass). As with other case forms, its exact spelling and pronunciation are tied to the surrounding grammatical structure of the sentence.

See also: Polish grammar, noun declension, Poaceae.