"Nosisz płaszcz."
Translation:You wear an overcoat.
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I would also like to know. I don't even know what an overcoat is and how it differs from a coat.
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There is no difference between an overcoat and a coat. An overcoat is an archaic version of a coat. Coats are full length, to the knee or longer and can be worn over a jacket, which is why they were called overcoats, this has now been abbreviated to coat in modern usage
"coat" is also accepted, "overcoat" is the main answer to somehow show a difference between "płaszcz" and "kurtka".
Because nosić (infinitive of nosisz) doesn't mean "to be wearing", in Polish you say "mieć na sobie" (to have on yourself). So "You are wearing a coat" is "Masz na sobie płaszcz".
Thank you for this explanation. In English you are wearing and you wear are interchangeable.
From Szczecin to Bydgoszcz, combining "sz" and "cz" will always amaze me.
Why doesn't "You wear a coat" work? What is the difference between "coat" and "overcoat?"
The word "overcoat" is rarely used. It means any piece of garment put
on top of (over) any other clothes. The long type is called "coat" (płaszcz),
the short one is called "jacket" (kurtka, żakiet, marynarka).
You wear an overcoat doesn't make sense you are wearing a overcoat should be accepted
a mantle is just a type of overcoat i wouldnt stress it but they should keep it simple
Why is "you wear a jacket" not accepted? In my part of the USA, we do not use the word coat - a jacket is everything from a puffy winter parka to a thin zip-up hoodie. Does płaszcz only refer to the puffy winter parka?
I quickly went through all the images that Google Graphics showed me for "jacket" and I didn't notice anything that I'd call "płaszcz". I also googled "parka" (which sounds Polish to me and apparently is a word in Polish as well), and most results look more like a "kurtka" to me and are called "kurtka typu parka" for example, although "płaszcz" has been used with some of them, true. But I don't know if it's enough to change the accepted translations here, we'd like to show the difference somehow...