"Piję wodę do każdego posiłku."

Translation: I drink water with every meal.

[ardecarlo]

"I drink water to every meal" doesn't sound right. I put, "I drink water at every meal", which is correct but got marked wrong. "I drink water with every meal" should also be acceptable, if it isn't already.

[conor.raff]

"I drink water to every meal" is definitely not valid English. If it's still in the valid answers list it should be taken out (native speaker UK/IRL).

It's now accepting "I drink water with every meal", which is the most natural way to express this idea in English.

[Mandiras]

Seems like they took that answer out. I made that mistake multiple times, since to is simply so natural to use in this context in my language :p

[LeeJurga]

Can you use the "z" with instrumental here?:

"Piję wodę z każdym posiłkiem."

[Jellei]

Sure, it works.

[LeeJurga]

thanks

[immerweiter]

does it mean that posiłku can be genitive or lokativ depending on

[immery]

Just like genitive = accusative or singular genitive=plural nominative that things happen.

Do mojego posiłku. (Genitive)
Po moim posiłku. (Locative)

[immerweiter]

Życzę dobrej niedzieli

[immerweiter]

is posiłku lokative

[immery]

it is genitive here. Locative posiłek=posiłku. but we use genitive after do.

[IvesAB]

This is the first time I see the preposition "do" meaning "with".
Is this a common construction?

[Jellei]

It's just a good example that prepositions are rarely equivalent between languages. It's literally 'to every meal', but then it doesn't work in English. Although "z każdym posiłkiem" works as well.

[alik1989]

I find it interesting that German uses the equivalent of the English "to" for this sentence. Having "with" in its place wouldn't sound quite right.

[F4yY9kZj]

How about 'w każdym posiłku', 'na każdym posiłku', 'przy każdym posiłku', 'u każdego posiłku'--are any of these acceptable?

[alik1989]

• W każdym posiłku - sounds like 'I drink all the water which is contained in all the meals'. ☒
• Na każdym posiłku - Makes the meal sound like some kind of event. It's better with the accusative, but that's more like 'for every meal'. ☒
• Przy każdym posiłku - Works for me, however, it sounds like drinking water isn't usually part of the meal, like it's something separate. ☑
• U każdego posiłku - sounds like 'posiłek' is a person. Unlike Russian, Polish only uses 'u' for people. ☒

We also accept 'z każdym posiłkiem'. ☑

[bufferz91]

Personally i think you should accept 'i drink water for every meal'

[Jellei]

I think it suggests that water is your whole meal...