"Pijesz herbatę?"
Translation:Do you drink tea?
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I can't hear the difference between "herbata" and "herbatę"...
Could anyone help with pronunciation?
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The audio is indeed a bit confusing. 'Ę' at the end of the word is pronouced more like 'e' (like in 'set').
Wait, actually, Duo & Google translate pronounce it like ɛ and the one dude on forvo.com more like some "eu"... So I don't know whom to trust, will ask Polish friends this Friday :D
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The way that the man on forvo says is a bit exaggerated. The vowel is differently spelled, depending on some conditions: in the middle of the word it is fully pronounced ('język' - http://pl.forvo.com/word/j%C4%99zyk/#pl here sounds best to me in the second example), or becomes more something like [em] sound (głęboki - http://pl.forvo.com/search/g%C5%82%C4%99boki/pl/ sounds almost like [głemboki]).
In the end of the sentence it is almost reduced to short [e] - on forvo, unfortunately, people have tendencies to be hypercorrect, and pronounce [ę]. But when You listen to Polish everyday speech, for example on Youtube, You will see what I am talking about: https://youtu.be/2nG-kTU1xkk?t=8s
"Ja wam pomogę" ('I will help you') - and pomogę is spelled with a sound close to [e]
So herbatę here is a noun, feminin, si gular, accusative form. Is that right ?
How do I express the difference between do you drink tea? and Are you drinking tea? in polish? thanks
You usually don't, although for some verbs, including "to drink", there is a 'habitual' variant of the verb which works only for Present Simple. It's "pijać", so here it would be "Pijasz herbatę?".
Other than that, there are just some additional words like "often", "now", etc.
