"Dekada to nie sekunda."

Translation: A decade is not a second.

[israellai]

This is really deep when you think about it

[dambied]

Yeah, Jaden Smith-deep :D

[TwinTip]

The last decade however seemed like one to me

[M.Bober]

Woman speaks too quickly and sometimes I don't understand what she says. I'm from Poland.

[foo__bar]

Also doesn't put the accents right and sometimes loses "y" when it's the last letter of a word. :D

[Silmendil]

I don't get this sentence.

[4d1n]

Decade is used usually as "10 years", so it definitely isn't a second. The sentence "Dekada nie jest sekundą" means the same.

[Silmendil]

Ah ok. Now I get it. I didn't get this "second" here. Thanks ;)

[sharkman.ru]

Or "10 days", depending on a weather at Mars.
That's why I hate this word and newer used it in my entire life.

[Neo15161]

how would dopelniacz sound like? "dekada nie jest sekundy?

[Jellei]

Well, 'sekundy' is indeed the Genitive (dopełniacz) form, but your sentence doesn't make grammatical sense...

[Ash473779]

Is this a phase used often in Polish language?

[immery]

no it is one of those "special" sentences created to use the most new words like "January is a month of winter",

[Mim_Fox]

Why is this in the nominative case when it's a negative? I thought it should change to the genitive in that scenario.

[Jellei]

The problem of many learners is that they take the rule about negation causing Genitive too far. It is not "Negation = Genitive". It's "Negated Accusative = Genitive". And because Accusative is so commonly used, people spread this too far. But actually any other case just stays the same when negated.

[Mim_Fox]

Thank you, that's so helpful!

[Neil395069]

I understand why these sentences appear, but they're getting a bit annoying now.

[Wr.Catington]

Though a second sometimes feels like a decade...