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is it the only right answer? can't I translate just "she thinks about studies", why "her" is necessary here?
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I have exactly the same question. This original sentence shows no indication that she is thinking about her own studies. She might think about someone else's studies or studies in general, e.g. the fate of Polish studies in Cambridge.
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moontjan:
"Ona myśli o studiach" means exactly "She thinks about her own studies". It is as if it were a Polish language tradition, that when no possessive pronoun is used, it implies "herself´s studies".
Provided that it means "She is thinking about going to a university" and not only "She is thinking about learning for tomorrow's exam", then yes, it should work. And as I'm almost sure that it's okay for the first interpretation, I'm going to add it.
I thought "studiach" meant college. I always thought that to be so. If I am wrong, then how do you say "college" in Polish?
We don't have college, we have universities. Mostly in the system 3+2 years (bachelor's + master's). If we talk about American colleges, we usually leave it the English way, although I think I've seen a 'polonized' version "koledż" as well.
In the US, college and university can be used interchangeably in almost all cases.
"za twoje wszystkie odpowiedzi" :) (in Accusative, plus in such contexts "for" = "za", "dla" is usually for someone/some animal. Not only, but most often.)
Not a good translation. "studies" really mean " going to the university" right? It has a lot more context than a direct translation.
The meaning may be really similar, but here she's simply thinking either about her studies or about the idea of studying something, not about 'a university' or 'a college'...
She thinks about studies or studying, would be more like "Ona myśli o nauce". In conversation when someone says "Ona myśli o studiach", it is generally referring to someone thinking about going to university. College could be "szkoła techniczna" or "Szkoła Wyższa" no?
Well, this is a difficult thing to translate. I don't exactly agree now with what I wrote 14 months ago, and since that time 'college' and 'university' have been added.
Basically, the Polish sentence means that she thinks about something connected to her university education. Maybe she's in high school and she's thinking about her future. Maybe she is already a student and she's thinking about the test next week and the essay that's due tomorrow. Maybe she is thinking that she made a wrong choice choosing her major and wonders whether it's too late to change it. Maybe she is 35 and just thinking about the good ol' times. Basically, it's a university equivalent of a similarly vague "She is thinking about school".
'szkoła techniczna' may be a part of the name of some university focused on technology, but my first (wrong) thought was that it's a 'technikum', so clearly that's not common.
'szkoła wyższa' is a very general notion for an institution dealing with university education, it can sometimes be a part of a name.
How to put the American notion of 'college' into the Polish context, I'm not really sure. This idea and how it's different from 'university' has always been confusing to me.
Yeah, I agree with what you're saying. And, yes, the college thing has always been a problem.
I would have liked to try studying but don't know if it would be accepted. There are so many ways of saying the same thing and not all are.
