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"Mój pokój nie ma pomarańczowego sufitu."
Translation:My room does not have an orange ceiling.
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"And from this, Watson, I deduce that the previous tenants did not smoke."
Could someone explain why it is pomarańczowego here? Is it the genitive form because it's a negative sentence? Thanks :)
Yes. It's a typical example of accusative changing into genitive in negative sentences.
"My room has not an orange seilling". Is that not an correct sentence? This answer was wrong!
It's a pretty unusual variation. Nobody I know would ever say it like that; it sounds foreign or stilted.
It's used by some stereotypical posh middle aged men, at least so in the North West of England. Sorry for the lack of an example sentence, I've left the area for quite a few years now.
This treatment of "have" as auxiliary when it means "to possess" is dialectal. If I recall correctly, people in North of England or Scotland may say that. In more standard varieties it would be a normal verb, so you would use "doesn't have".
so a ceiling is like a plant or a food like a tomato, and requires the genitive? Oh, "nie ma" requires genitive. Got it!
Well, Wiktionary says that dach means roof and sufit means ceiling. A roof is visible from the outside looking down, and a ceiling is visible from the inside looking up. The roof and the ceiling are usually different surfaces.
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I'm going to guess you've also grown up referring to the ceiling of a room as the roof the same as me. Having to break that habit here so i can pass these courses.
"Strop" is the kind of ceiling that you see in larger buildings or caves. "Sufit" is definitely much more fitting here.
Is there a shortening for pomarańczowy?? This word just seems way too long, and i would think a language would evolve not to have such long words for just a simple adjective
I recently needed to find a shorter equivalent and my colleague suggested "oranżowy". Apparently it can work. But the fact that I needed to check if it's really a word and if it means the same says it all: it's just a fun fact ;)
That reminds me of a computer game, where the translator had to translate "homing missile", but the usual translation „pocisk samonaprowadzający” exceeded the character limit. So they made up a new word: „samotraf”.
I'm pretty sure that I've heard about that recently from someone at work :D
On the other hand, I hear that Polish has "wariator" where English has "continuously variable transmission".
I'm not aware at the moment of any shorter synonyms. This is just how people call this color in Polish.
