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- "I am eating an apple."
"I am eating an apple."
Translation:Jem jabłko.
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Yes. "Jem" is the first-person (when you talk about YOU), singular (only one) conjugation of the verb "jesc," meaning "to eat."
it says that I have a typo but that diagonal t letter isn't on my keyboard! ugh
It's not a variant of T, it's a variant of L. Of course, using L will also be treated as a typo. You just need a Polish keyboard. Or SwiftKey, if you are on your phone.
It's not a "t." It's an "l." There are two "l"'s in the Polish alphabet. The first, "l;" pronounced "leh," is used like we would use it in the English language. The second, pronounced "weh," has a slash that runs ascending, diagonally from left to right; and is used where and how we would use a "w."
Depending on the device you're using, and which input language is selected. Mine pops-up when I press and hold "t"
Jem means "I am eating," or "I eat." Jestem means "I am...," meaning I am (insert something permanent). I.e. "Jestem Polski: I am Polish."
I'm afraid that "Jestem Polski" doesn't make sense. We can say "polski samolot" (a Polish airplane), or "polski piłkarz" (a Polish footballer), but to say what is my nationality, we use nouns. A man will say "Jestem Polakiem" and a woman will say "Jestem Polką". They are capitalized, while the adjectives are not.
Yes, almost always. They are obvious from the form of the verb. The only potential problem is 3rd person, but as normally you have some context, the subject will probably be obvious from the context.
This question is directed towards Duolingo. Where can the Slavic keyboard be found? I don't have the option on my phone and I'm not learning correctly
Somewhere in the settings on your phone you can enable a Polish keyboard, but an easier solution may be downloading an app call SwiftKey and then you can have up to 5 keyboards there. For example you could have the diactritic marks for German, Spanish and Polish on the same keyboard.
A little side note said, "pay attention to the accents." My type-pad doesn't HAVE accents, or "foreign" letters.
I just discovered something cool about my phone. Even without Swiftkey, I can interchange use of the English and Polish alphabets.
