"These sandwiches are tasty."

Translation: Te kanapki są smaczne.

[Pampelius]

Why doesn't ci work here?

[gabe81]

'Ci' is for masculine plural personal - 'kanapki' is feminine plural.

[JulesBear1]

is -i the standard ending for plural femenine words? if so, is there a reason we have kobiety?

[immery]

according to this table in wiktionary

• i is one of endings for masculine personal plural nouns, but is -y after after c, dz, cz, dż, sz, ż, rz,

• y is one of endings for masculine not personal and feminine plural nouns, but is -i after k, g

edited

[JulesBear1]

kanapk- ends in a k, not a c, dz, cz, dż, sz, ż, or rz,

[immery]

I mixed it. fixed now. "ky" is a rare pair in Polish (only in some foreign words like kynologia).

[JulesBear1]

I am at least glad to know that it's just situational and that it can be helped to be determined by the spelling of the root

[JulesBear1]

Big thanks!!

[br0d4]

Pronouns ten, ta, to, ci, te

[Vampiremmy]

where is the difference between smaczny and smaczne?

[br0d4]

In Polish the adjective takes the gender and the number of the noun it describes. So, "smaczne" is nominative, plural, nonvirile form of "smaczny" - see http://sgjp.pl/leksemy/#144017/smaczny

[_giachichan_]

Why does "To kanapki są smaczne" not work?

[alik1989]

We need a demonstrative pronoun here and not a dummy pronoun. And those are inflected for number, gender and case. 'To' would have been singular neuter, but kanapki requires plural nonvirile (te).

[_giachichan_]

Thanks!

[Jellei]

Accidentally your sentence makes some sense, with another meaning of "to". Imagine that you see sandwiches, milk and cheese and someone tells you that only one of those things is tasty. "To kanapki są smaczne" means something like "It's the sandwiches that are the tasty ones". Of course it's not a very likely sentence.

[_giachichan_]

Ok I got it, thank you very much

[ElisabethV832819]

Why would " Te kanapki jest smaczne" not work?

[br0d4]

"jest" is singular

[Rama434]

Why tamte kanapki są smaczne is wrong?

[Rama434]

Is it Te/Ci for these (close)? and tamci/tamte for those (far)?

[br0d4]

Is it Te/Ci for these (close)? and tamci/tamte for those (far)?

Simply speaking - yes.

More exactly - "those" can be also translated to "te/ci", and often it is. But never the other way round, "these" cannot be translated to "tamci/tamte" - an explanation is here: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26090156 ; for more information, see also here: https://www.clozemaster.com/blog/polish-demonstrative-pronouns/