"Ona pije wodę."
Translation:She drinks water.
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Depends on who's the subject. "Piję" is 1st person singular. I drink, I am drinking.
And "pije" is 3rd person singular. He/she/it drinks, he/she/it is drinking.
Also depends on who's the subject. "Jem" is 1st person singular. I eat, I am eating.
And "je" is 3rd person singular. He/she/it eats, he/she/it is eating.
In general, the verb forms vary per subject (I/he/they) and per number (sing./plural)
I am drinking = Ja piję. You are drinking = ty pijesz. He/she/it is drinking = on/ona/ono pije. We are drinking = my pijemy. You are drinking = wy pijecie. They are drinking = oni/one piją
"pić": ja piję, ty pijesz, on/ona/ono pije, my pijemy, wy pijecie, oni/one piją.
Now the 'vodka' in Russian makes sense! :D I had an ah-ha moment when I put it all together. Water in Russian, another Slavic language, is voda (which is similar to wodę pronunciation-wise). Vodka comes from voda. I love how they're all connected. :)
With the English translation, it was translated to both "She drinks water" and "She is drinking water". How can I know what the sentence means which tense? Is the meaning of this sentence taken within context depending on the situation?
In Polish we just have one Present Tense. So almost all verbs will work perfectly well for both Present Simple and Present Continuous.
Almost - but right now, you don't have to worry about it.
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Is it true that the vowels with this hook under it are nasals? It was the case with words before this but in "wodę" I can hardly a nasal. Is there one?
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Word-final -ę is commonly pronounced like -e if there is no risk of misunderstanding, like in case of this sentence.
I think I can agree that the slow female audio is bad, it sounds like "ije".
EDIT: It sounds as if it got better, I can hear it now...
It sounds like the same. I'm learning the two with any problem.
- Она пьёт воду. / Ona p'yot vodu
- Ona pije wodę.
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Is it me or Russian and Polish are kinda having the same nouns like ON and ONA, CHLEP, JABŁKA and so on?
Russian, Polish, and other Slavic languages are related to some degree, and consequently have some similar words. (Он. Она. Хлеб.. Яблоко.) . Czech, for example: On. Ona. Chléb. Jablko.
On a recent trip to Slovakia, I found that my fluent broken Polish worked wonders :-)
When this course was created there were no tools for teaching pronunciation/alphabet, but we are planning to update the course and focus on this more.