"Siedemnaście, osiemnaście, dziewiętnaście, dwadzieścia"
Translation:Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty
December 16, 2015
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Ubeogesh
466
I almost feel like Polish should have used cyrillic script - instead of all the consonant sequences like sz, cz, szcz, etc. just have one bloody letter - ж, ч, щ...
While normally 'ę' only sounds like 'e' at the end of the word, I think it would actually be considered hypercorrectness to make a clear 'ę' in this particular word.
Similarly, Polish almost doesn't have any silent letters, but a few numbers have them, e.g. "pięćdziesiąt", "sześćdziesiąt", "dziewięćdziesiąt" in which you usually omit 'ć'. 'ę' should be pronounced clearly in 50 and 90 though.
BenPaloAlto
325
Is there an explanation of the drift from ę to e in piętnaście? It is not more difficult to pronounce the ę before the t.