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"The old people are eating cookies."
Translation:Starzy ludzie jedzą ciasteczka.
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That moment when it'sa multiple choice question, and Duo gives you the option 'Starzy ludzie jedzą dzieci'
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That's „-rzy” more like, and you get it in masculine-personal plural, when adjective ends in „-ry”. Handy table on Wikibooks.
"Ciasteczka" typically refers to "little cookies" in Polish, whereas "ciastka" are often referred to as regular cookies.
A cake is ciasto (plural ciasta), a large cookie is ciastko (ciastka), and a small cookie is ciasteczko (ciasteczka).
There's no "ci" in the main translation, although is is accepted.
"ci" = "these" for the masculine-personal plural. "ludzie" include at least one man (by definition), so the word is masculine personal.
Often when in English you use "the", in fact the meaning is more like "this"/"these". So this is why it's accepted. Because sometimes it just makes more sense than the literal translation.
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you said people (ludzie) included at least one man by definition so "ludzie" is concerned as masculine. So we say "starzy ludzie". But don't "dzieci" include at least one boy by definition so it is also masculine? Good children is "dobre dzieci", not "dobrzy dzieci". Why?
It also has to be a grammatically masculine noun. But dzieci (singular: dziecko) is neuter.
The English sentence lacks hints for the correct verb tense in the multipart hints (which show up first), which ends up that burying the correct verb tense to third place and in a split screen - someone who's still not acquainted with the endings may stumble and pick "jesz" or "jecie" instead. I've already reported it :)
Yes, "stary" is definitely wrong here because it's masculine singular, and you have plural here.
Nominative masculine personal plural: starzy.
Starze for all other nominative plurals.
Did you mean "elderly"? It works, but technically the translation is "starsi" (lit. "older") - this is also more polite in Polish.
