"Chłopiec nie je już kolacji."

Translation: The boy is not eating dinner anymore.

[Caroline824528]

Could 'The boy doesn't eat his dinner anymore' be correct?

[Vengir]

Technically, there is no word for "his" here, but otherwise it should be ok.

[Caroline824528]

But I saw that there's often no word for 'his', and that's why I thought it should work like this here too.

[Vengir]

I'll report it just in case. Whether it gets accepted or not, that one "his" doesn't change the meaning in my opinion.

[Alex413308]

już can be translated like "already", so my version is " the boy is not already eating dinner"

[Jellei]

It can - in a positive sentence. Not in a negative one. So no, your version doesn't work.

[ADJD4]

What about 'yet'? How am I supposed to know whether a Polish sentence means, for example, 'the boy isn't eating supper anymore' or 'the boy isn't eating supper yet'?

[Vengir]

Polish uses the word „jeszcze” for that. So that would be „Chłopiec jeszcze nie je kolacji”.

[ADJD4]

Would that be 'chłopiec już nie je kolacji'?

[RobinB896941]

No, I didn't have an "extra space" in any more, which is correct UK English, whereas anymore (a US American word) certainly isn't.

[Arnoldpitt]

When can 'juz) (with a dot) mean yet. Yet seemed to me the obvious answer here rather than any more

[Vengir]

The meaning of już:
In questions – yet
In negations – anymore
In declaratory – already