"Zwierzę"

Translation: The animal

[DarcX]

The z kinda sounds like ż or ź. Does z take on this sound before e (or maybe just ę)??

[zim_ek]

You read rz as ż :) That's the same sound, but different spelling.

[DogChewedOpals]

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[penny776032]

Why so many likes? I think the person was asking about whether the pronunciation was correct in the audio, not about spelling. I too heard a ż or a ź. I too would like to know if it was correct. I thout it might be "y" at the end.

[alik1989]

It's definitely a ż-sound, thus correct. Rz is pronounced as ż in voiced and as sz in devoiced positions (for example after p,t,k,ch and at the end of a word), never as ź.

And the ę can be pronounced as either "plain e" or as an e with a slight nasality.

[gebo513]

is this instrumental case? or does it just happen to have ogonek?

[Vengir]

It's nominative. The instrumental case for "zwierzę" is "zwierzem".

[doro.tab]

AdrianVeng, you're right - it's nominative. But in instrumental it's "zwierzęciem". Check out all the forms of this word in here: https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/zwierz%C4%99

[Vengir]

Ah, you are right. "Zwierzem" is instrumental case for "zwierz", which means pretty much the same thing.

[olivia.leggio]

is the ę on the reduced to a schwa?

[Vengir]

Usually, ę at the end is reduced to a simple e.

[olivia.leggio]

so it should be pronounced like the other e in the word?

[Orangus]

How to say "beast" then?

[Jellei]

"Beast" translates to "bestia", but it's rather in the concept of some really monstrous animals, often more suitable for fantasy books than real life.

So on the one hand, in some more mundane contexts it would be probably translated as "zwierzę", but on the other hand, the idea of accepting 'beast' here seems somehow wrong to me...

[Arnona2]

How do i identify the difference between the animal and an animal? Im having trouble identifying the difference. Thanks

[BugglyBear]

Why the fluff must I add 'the'?

[Jellei]

You don't. The main answer has it, but we accept also "animal" on its own.