"Jestem kotem."
Translation:I am a cat.
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Meh, esperanto has got some great sentences: Alone alone alone. We dont have forniture, so we sit down on the floor. Defeat the babies! The whatchamacallit doesnt work.
There are 7 cases in Polish language, and you are going to meet them all.
Instrumental is named like this because it idicates what is used to do something, like cot with knife= ciąć nożem.
But this case is also used in other situations, one is after verb być=be, zostać=become Other is after some prepositions.
I'm sorry, i still don't understand. Lev to kot is a lion is a cat, but jestem kotem is i am a cat. Why is one instrumental but the other not?
The instrumental case is used in several situations, one of these being when the verb być - to be is used. But when 'to' is used the word stays in the nominative case.
So it's lev to kot, but lev jest kotem.
Damn these Slavic languages! I love them, but I'm so used to predicate nominatives!!
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Like "Hi, it"s I", or "It was he, Miss", perhaps?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/15/steven-pinker-10-grammar-rules-break
Ive come to thw concluaion that when they use "to" its "kot" or "zwierzę" or "człowiek" And when they use "jest(eś, em)" its "kotem" and "zwierzęciem" and "człowiekiem"
I can't help you with tue grammar behind it but this seems to work.
I hope this helps :)
I find it unlikely that whoever created this sentence knew the book, but it's an interesting find :)
My answer was correct - exactly the same as the given answer- but still marked as wrong. Why?
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I don't know, but if you press the flag icon which appears and report it, they should fix it.
When is Duolingo going to write some grammar lessons? Polish is too hit and miss:-0
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Why is it that the infinitive, TO BE, is byc, but none of the conjugations begin with a B? They're all J, except 3rd person plural, which sounds like the French word for they ARE, which is the only way I can remember it?
Well, none of the forms of English "to be" (am/are/is) starts with "B" as well ;) I can understand it's surprising, but I don't have an explanation for you, I'm afraid.
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Touché. Just today I was listening to a Polish language concert in which I learned the future of to be and it did actually start with a B but I forget what it was now
May I offer this conjugation table to help refresh your memory:
I have a question: I just can't understand why I have to write "Jestem kotem." and not "Jestem kot.". Can anyone explain it to me please?
The forms of the verb "być" (to be), such as "jestem" (I am), require the noun/noun phrase that follows to take the Instrumental case.
"kot" is Nominative (the basic form, like in a dictionary), but you need the Instrumental "kotem" here.
