"Moje fioletowe talerze są suche."

Translation: My violet plates are dry.

[okvoloh]

Why "My violet plates are dry" isn't correct?

[emansuperguy]

It's picky I don't like it either

[Jas789]

Is this a borrowed word from French "seche"?

[Ollyfer]

Apparently it is: Sèche translates to dry as well. It also isn't the first word borrowed from the French language we came across so far.

[alik1989]

Since I knew for a fact that at least three other Slavic languages share the same word for 'dry' and I couldn't believe that they all borrowed such a basic word from French, I decided to check.

No, it's not a French borrowing.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sux%D1%8A

[Ollyfer]

Now that was a surprising discovery! My « Petit Robert » also told me that French itself derived the word from Latin siccare. Clearly a tricky false friend, but thanks for emphasising that we both were wrong!

[udoyon]

Another word that got my attention - i can see that going back further it comes from proto-indo-european, which makes sense to me. In Hindi, both dry (masculine adjective) and drought are "sookha", and in Bangla it would be "shookno" (i am approximating these - very badly - in the English alphabet of course!)

[abcdef933419]

In Punjabi also, sookha means dry. And the form... sookhe would be dishes.

Although there may be urdu or persian influences here

[AldenMichaels]

This is an odd sentence lol