"Mężczyźni słuchają kobiety."
Translation:The men are listening to the woman.
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To jest niedobry przykład, bo [EDITED]:
- "Mężczyźni słuchają kobiety." (genitive, singular) = The men are listening to the woman. / The men are obedient to the woman.
- "Mężczyźni słuchają kobiet." (genitive, plural) = The men are listening to the women. / The men are obedient to the women.
Only if you say to someone, that you are ready to listen to that person, meaning that you are ready to take orders or help that person, you use accusative instead of genitive:
- "Tak, słucham panią." (accusative, singular) = Yes, I listen to you, ma'am (I am ready to take your order)
- "Tak, słucham panie." (accusative, plural) = Yes, I listen to you, ladies (I am ready to take your order)
(see słuchać )
ADDITION: full declension of noun KOBIETA
Kobieta - woman; female declension type VI with special forms in Dative (C), Locative (M) singular
KOBIETA ż IV
Case PL | Sample Questions | Case EN | singular | plural |
---|---|---|---|---|
1.Mianownik | kto? co? (jest) | Nominative | kobieta | kobiety |
2.Dopełniacz | kogo? czego? (nie ma) | Genitive | kobiety | kobiet |
3.Celownik | komu? czemu? (się przyglądam) | Dative | kobiecie | kobietom |
4.Biernik | kogo? co? (widzę) | Accusative | kobietę | kobiety |
5.Narzędnik | z kim? z czym? (idę) | Instrumental | z kobietą | z kobietami |
6.Miejscownik | o kim? o czym? (myślę) | Locative | o kobiecie | o kobietach |
7.Wołacz | o! | Vocative | kobieto! | kobiety! |
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Unfortunately, You are wrong.
According to sjp.pwn.pl (http://sjp.pwn.pl/poradnia/haslo/dopelniacz-czy-biernik;13519.html) - 'słuchać' needs a genitive, so only the answer given in the course is true.
UPDATE: also in wikipedia - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C5%82ucha%C4%87
Yup, unfortunately for learners, Polish has many more of such Genitive/Accusative quirks. On the other hand, practically no one would say słucham kobietę, one would say słucham, co (kobieta / ona) mówi or jak ona śpiewa.
And the phrase with genitive (słucham tej kobiety, słucham tamtego mężczyzny) may also mean just ‘I am listening to what she/he speaks’… Depending on the context. Just like English ‘listen to’, I believe.
With objects, the two also are possible: słucham ich nową płytę or słucham ich nowej płyty for ‘I am listening to their new album’.
Ehm... I'm not exactly saying that you're wrong, but how does what you wrote explain that "słuchać" (to listen to) takes Genitive but "słyszeć" (to hear) takes Accusative? I think that often there isn't really any special reason why the verb takes the given case, it's just something you have to remember...
Yes, yes and yes. :)
br0d4 compiled a list of such verbs in his post here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/16569658
It's part of Polish declention. The n gets 'softened' because it adds i, and therefore the z before it gets softened. To soften a consonant: z > ź/zi, s > ś/si, t > ć/ci, n > ń/ni, ł > l, k > c, g > dz, r > rz.
This 'softening' generally occurs when declining adjectives in the masculine human plural in the nominative case, and generally when declining singular nouns in the locative or dative case (although there are excpetions).