"Rok i wiek"

Translation: A year and a century

[paladyn.franek]

wiek could also be age.

[Tom873317]

What do you sing on somebody's 100th birthday?

[immery]

200 lat it. does mess to the song but well you need to do sth.

[Ash473779]

Often I hear lat used instead of rok, May anyone explain if there are any slight differences between the two?

[immery]

"lata" is plural of "rok", lat is genitive plural. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rok#Polish

(yes it literally means we count "years" in "Summers")

[Ash473779]

Haha! That's cool! That can be done in English but rarely, normally just for poetic reasons.
I like that it's the norm in Polish :)
Thanks

[AstroVulpes]

Is the "i" always this silent in Polish sentences?

[va-diim]

It's not always silent, twoi pronounced "tvo-yee," but when it acts like it's silent, what it is doing is palatalizing the consonant before it, like wiek, the "v" sound is palatalized (softened), sounding almost like "vyek" /vʲɛk/ without an obvious "y" sound but rather a softer "v" /vʲ/ sound. Otherwise, without an "i" it would sound like "veck" like in "vector".

[kiddo-depido]

I can hear it but it's very very soft

[PolskaNatasha]

how would you say age as in, his age is 10 years old? is it also wiek?

[JerryMcCarthy99]

"On ma dziesięć lat" (literally "he has ten summers")

[va-diim]

Wiek means "century"

[alik1989]

But it also means "age of a person". You should probably be familiar with Ukrainian "вік", which also has the same meaning.

[va-diim]

I'm not a native Ukrainian speaker, so I didn't know that. Thanks! In Russian, the age of a person is возраст ("wozrast"). I've never heard of "century" used as the age of a person.

[JerryMcCarthy99]

Interesting that there is no actually hint of the number "100" in "wiek" (or indeed in "век", but I do see that there also exist "stulecie"/"столетие").

[va-diim]

In Russian, the format for "21st Century" in writing would be "XXI в.," just as "2019" would be "2019 г." in Russian