"She is a woman."
Translation:Ona jest kobietą.
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Instrumental is the most regular case, has fewest rules and no exceptions. a→ą is indeed correct.
it is a name of case. Polish language has 7 cases- Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Instrumental, Locative and Vocative.
That means every noun has potentially 14 forms (usually some look the same, but which changes between words).
Instrumental is a form that theoretlically answers question "using what?" but it is also used after certain verbs and prepositions.
One of those verbs are być=to be and zostać=to become.
Which basically means- you need to look up "instrumental/narzędnik" form of noun to use after "jestem/jesteś/jest/jesteście/jesteśmy/są"
And this form of noun KOBIETA is KOBIETĄ
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Like Croats, we do the same in Serbian. Additionally, we use two alphabets - Latin (so we can read Croatian which is very similar to Serbian) and Cyrillic (makes it easy for us to read Russian). Confusing enough ?!??!?!?
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Not using it is limited to East Slavic languages (Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, and I believe Rusyn too)
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On Android you can simply install the Google Keyboard and enable the Polish QWERTY keyboard.
I think that in most situations the Instrumental form is better. In fact, we don't even accept "Ona to kobieta" because we believe it just sounds too clumsy if on the left side there's a personal pronoun.
The Instrumental variant is more... descriptive, while the Nominative one kinda sounds like "She = woman".
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Well kobieta is like "this woman" ye and thats all i can say , sorry if this did not help you
I'm glad you like it (although the current team can't really take credit for the course structure) :)
Level two... well, there are so-called 'crown levels', so taking a skill (e.g. "Plurals") once gets you to crown level 1, and then you can take every skill again to reach higher crown levels. This gets you more practice, and the exercises are more difficult at higher levels.
There are only three tenses in Polish if you don't count the pluperfect.
In case you meant 'seven types of cases', then you won't encounter them all at once in one lesson because they are introduced more or less gradually.
This one is an exercises, where you can become familiar with one of the uses of the instrumental case.
At least for a beginner: "kobieta" is mostly used for the subject of the sentence (Kobieta jest wysoka = The woman is tall) and in "This is a woman" (To jest kobieta).
"kobietą" is mostly used in sentences like this one, built as "[pronoun] is [noun]" (Ona jest kobietą = She is a woman) or "[noun] is [noun]" (Anna jest kobietą = Anna is a woman).
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Whats wrong with "Ona to kobieta"? Or is it that you didnt include it because its not been taught at this stage of the course?
Things that were not taught yet should still be accepted if they're correct, one has the right to have some knowledge from outside the course ;)
However, the construction of "pronoun + noun in Nominative" to be very clumsy, something that we shouldn't accept. With pronouns, "jest + Instrumental" is the only valid option.