"Potrzebujecie konia?"
Translation:Do you need a horse?
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This reminds of the Spanish course. There is a sentence in the Spanish course that reads "necesito un caballo", which means "I need a horse". XD
Maybe they've exceeded the luggage allowance on their other horses. What they really need is a donkey!
Technically, as the Polish question had "potrzebujecie" (2nd person plural), the right answer would be "we need a camel" ;)
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Is the audio right? I thought, Polish ‘rz’ would always be pronounced like in ‘dobrze’ or ‘przepraszam’?
Audio is good here:
"rz" in "potrzebujecie" or "przepraszam is identical (sound lost after "p", "t")
"rz" in "dobrze", "drzewo" differs from the above (sound not lost after "b", "d")
I believe that "sound lost" means the same as mute, inaudible, unpronounced. What you most likely meant was devoiced, devocalized.
There are some notable exceptions, e.g., marznąć (=freeze) and mierzić (=disgust) are pronounced as r-z and so are some words composed of prefixes ending in an r: cyber-, hiper-, super-) and roots starting with a z, e.g. superzabawa and hiperzespolony.
Finally there are some foreign origin words, like erzac (=erzatz) or Tarzan, which are pronounced with the r and z separated as well.
Is konia accusative or genetive? Is it true that potrzebujecie takes genetive, as in potrzebujecie tej kobiety (not tą kobietę)?
Yes, "potrzebować" is among those exceptions that take Genitive, so "konia" is Genitive here.
Using Accusative even with such verbs is a very common mistakes among the native speakers. But well, a course teaching the language cannot knowingly accept what is still considered a mistake.
I feel that as there is debate around what we need and what we want this is verging into philosophy as well - extra learning from duo