"Krab jest zwierzęciem."

Translation: The crab is an animal.

[DankaEagle]

dlacego jest v sekcii "correct solution" takze odpoviedz "crabs are animals", jesli v polskem jazyku jest liczba pojedyncza?

[AspiroFremor]

It is somewhat explained in the tips in the beginning. You can say "Krab jest zwierzęciem" if you think about whole species, thus making English "Crabs are animals" closer in meaning. Of course "The crab in an animal" is also correct.

And I hope you wouldn't mind if I mark the mistakes in your Polish ;) It's really great though!

Dlaczego w sekcji "correct solution" jest także odpowiedź "crabs are animals", jeśli w języku polskim jest liczba pojedyncza?

[DankaEagle]

Thank you very much for corect my mistakes in my Polish! I can spek and read, but i need help with my write :)

[LaisReis1]

Piotr, lovely explanation! By the way, how can you make letters bold?

[immery]

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[Viersch]

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[ezajdel]

So, is "rak" only used for Cancer (Zodiac) or does it also work for the animal?

[AspiroFremor]

It is used for the animal, the illness and the zodiac sign. "Raki" is used also for ice-climbing crampons.

[va-diim]

Piotr, ty russkij?

[AspiroFremor]

Nope, Polish native speaker, Вадим :)

[va-diim]

Jak Piotr po polsku? Po ukrajińsku Petro, po angielsku Peter, ...

[AspiroFremor]

Piotr jest po polsku. :)

[DankaEagle]

"rak" is also animal. it lives in clear rivers, streams, creeks, sometimes you can see it also in the spring well. It loves clear water. Rak lives in Czech.
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/crayfish_%28cambarus%29.htm

[mskycc3]

So "rak" is "crayfish", but "krab" is "crab"?

Crayfish and crab are two different animals in English. A crab generally has a main body in the center with 8 legs on the sides, similar to a spider; a crayfish's body includes a tail with many sections and looks like a lobster.

[immery]

Rak lives in Poland so it has Polish(Slavic) name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astacus_astacus

Krab does not so it has "international" name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab

Lobster is homar , which is also "international name". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homarus_gammarus

[Zesul]

Is "w" in zwierzęciem pronounced with like "g" in "gun"? I am hearing /zgeʐɛ̃d͡ʑem/.

[Jellei]

No, it's a normal "w", so it's pronounced as "v". Polish doesn't have such surprises.

[PerunBolt]

I really have to do a paradigm-shift with the verb 'jest' ('to be' in Polish) as I am used to Ukrainian and 'jest' sounds so similar to the Ukrainian verb 'yisty' ('to eat')!

Here. This sentence 'sounded' like the 'crab was going 'to eat' an animal'. :/

[Jellei]

Well, "jeść" is the imperative "to eat". So it's still close ;)

[OussamaElAyar]

What is the difference between 'to' and 'jest' ?!

[Jellei]

"jest" simply is the verb "is", 3rd form of "to be".

"to" is a so-called copula. In such a sentence and here, it is a bit like a = sign. It also serves a number of other functions.

[WiktoriaGm1]

'To' is 'this' and 'jest' is 'is'

[WiktoriaGm1]

I speak polish so i know

[CameronSne5]

A crab is an animal was marked wrong - I thought there were no articles in polish! Also A crab is an animal is probably closer to the English as "crabs are animals" and "a crab is an animal" are both equivalent in English

[WiktoriaGm1]

I had the same thing,its actually anoying now

[tuna386117]

This one is hard to hear clearly. Hearing them slow is really helpful!