"To idealne dziecko jest w idealnej szkole."

Translation: This perfect child is in a perfect school.

[aGABT31]

Is "idealnej szkole" locative? (on account of the "w")

[Jellei]

Yes indeed.

[NickFleck]

There are two things that do not exist—a perfect child and a perfect school; in fact in an universe of chance perfection does not exits.

[watermelon240111]

Plato thinks so

[Arilint]

Does it also mean "ideal" as in a "perfect imaginary model that does not exist in reality"? That phrase would be perfect to complain that some example is just not for the real world.

[Okcydent]

No. It means that something is perfect but not imaginary. There is also „ideowy” meaning ideological. To render it we would probably go with: „modelowy”, „wzorcowy”, „koncepcyjny”, „odniesienia/referencyjny”.

[motopol]

There is no such thing as A IDEAL, you should say AN IDEAL

[PonyDesu]

That's why you have the "report" option.

[zim_ek]

Fixed. Please use the report feature in the future.

[KrazyKoala06]

I think in English 'ideal' and 'perfect' are similar but not exactly the same, at least in that there are contexts where interchanging them would sound weird. Duolingo is accepting "idealne" as either "ideal" or "perfect." Is there a distinction?

[Jellei]

There's also "perfekcyjne" for "perfect", but "idealne" seems better in the Polish sentence and "perfect" in the English one.

[dklaskowsk]

I typed "the ideal child in the ideal school" and got flagged for a missing "is" BUT the suggested solution had "child's" with the idea of a contraction of "child is." Can you contract "child is" into "child's"?

[Jellei]

Not the most common thing, but sure, you can.

[tryingveryhard]

Yes you can, but it's pretty informal, just so you know.

[watermelon240111]

Is there a different between in a school and on a school?

[JerryMcCarthy99]

You mean, like, "on the roof of a school", like Lyra Belacqua?

[Lucynka44]

No pressure though

[KSingh439021]

I typed "This is a perfect child in perfect school" and was marked wrong. In english , it should say a perfect school. But apart from tgat, the solution "This perfect chils is in a perfect school " is different in meaning to my wrong answer as well.

Could someone please explain how the two different meanings would be said in Polish ?

Thank you very much !

[JerryMcCarthy99]

I believe that the difference would be that the word "jest" would migrate to the beginning of the sentence, just after the "To", much the same as you have moved the word "is" up to just after the "This".

[GerwaLU1]

there is a bug here. i typed " to idealny dziecko jest w idealne szkole" and it scored as correct.

[Jellei]

Unfortunately, sometimes the grading algorithm is way too lenient...

[TrevorTaz]

It is ideal a child is in an ideal school- Why is this not accepted?

[alik1989]

Your sentence has an implied conjunction: "It is ideal (that)...".

Such conjunctions can't be omitted in Polish, therefore the original sentence does not have this meaning.

[zorrosombra]

¡Ponieważ dziecko jest już idealne, nie potrzebuje szkoły!

[Ian737383762]

PLURAL

[JerryMcCarthy99]

PLURAL? WHAT ABOUT IT?