"Jesteś człowiekiem!"
Translation:You are a human!
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that has literally become a running joke because of what the japanese course did- not sure if it came up anywhere else, but the sentence was 'Excuse me, I am an apple.'
Yep, we have that sentence in our course now and several others have it as well ;) I thought that the Dutch was first... but I'm not sure, maybe it was the Japanese. Not us for sure :D
in other contexts, 'person' is allowed as a translation for 'człowiek' - why not here?
Well, it's not exactly an equivalent. Deciding on when it works and when not is often hard for us.
I'd say it like that: "Jesteś człowiekiem!" either is a super Captain-Obvious thing to say, or it sounds like from science-fiction/fantasy. And while Spock or Elrond definitely are persons, they are not human.
"You are a person" definitely works in English here! "You are a human" is an odd thing to say in any context but a science fiction story. "You are a person" could be used in other contexts. Eg "you are a person so you deserve respect".
(Nice to see you admitting Spock is a person, though )
What happens when you do not accept 'person' here is that you drive us to answer 'human' everywhere, otherwise we generate random rejections. If the question has no way for the beginner to predict the answer, it has no place here.
Typo: "zwierzę".
Those are interchangeable constructions in such a context (in a "[noun] is [noun]" sentence). It could also be "Koń jest zwierzęciem" and "Pająk to zwierzę".
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Nothing. I mean, it would be better to use it, but technically it isn't marked. If your answer was rejected, then the problem must have been somewhere else.