"Mięso i ryba"

Translation: Meat and fish

[Lkor]

Why not: "a meat and a fish"?

[Jellei]

You can't say "a meat" in English, it's uncountable.

[Yola448704]

No article "a" (which means "one") for "bulk" nouns, like meat or water,
and for the nouns which are just "plural" by nature, like: fish, or sheep.

[soderdaen]

When do you use "ryba" and when "rybe"?

[KemotS]

"Ryba" is nominative - mianownik (kto/co?), "rybę" is accusative - biernik (kogo/co?).

Just look at the examples:
To jest ryba. It is a fish.

Mam rybę. I have got a fish.

[richardensor]

Is this referring to "fish" generally, or specifically one fish ("a fish")?

[KemotS]

Both.

[Yola448704]

Whether it is one or two, or just meat, it is always fish.
The noun fish is plural, so it never needs the article "a".
When you go fishing, you catch one fish, two, three fish.

[TFG]

Is ę prounounced with a sort of en sound?

[timstellmach]

Roughly speaking, yes, except at the end of a word (or in a final -ęl or -ęł).

[TFG]

Thank you!

[Yola448704]

Have you tried the English "w" (Polish ł)
after the Polish "e" in the word "mięso?

Mięso - Mie(w)so - (Miełso) ----> Mięso

[rf-232]

Why shouldn't fish be ryby in this translation, i thought with ryba it needs to be "a fish"?

[Yola448704]

It says "ryba", so it is "fish": Mięso i ryba - Meat and fish
For "ryby" it is also... "fish": MIęso i ryby - Meat and fish

[pablopublico]

"Mięso" is cognate with "member" (limb).

[Peppercorn11]

I accidentally wrote 'Meat an fish', and it counted it wrong. I realise that it's incorrect in a way, but then I'm no computer to have perfect grammar and spelling.

[Jellei]

We don't have power over which typos are accepted and which aren't.

[StormscapAcity]

Why not meat and fish emoji?