"Ta mysz lubi ser."
Translation:This mouse likes cheese.
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No, mysz is feminine. Sometimes words ending in a consonant are feminine, but you can't guess it, you have to learn it when you encounter such words.
Just to be curious... Why is "That mouse likes cheese" also accepted here? Can "ta" be referred to both "tamta" and "ta"?
It is different perception of "proximity"
Polish ta, ta, tamta
English this, that that
so this is always ten/ta/to
and tamten/tamta/tamto is always that
but that can be both ten-tamten, ta-tamta, to-tamto depending on context
and ten/ta/to can be this or that depending on context.
I assume you're Russian? Because I can imagine it being VERY confusing to differentiate between this and "он любит", it even striked ME off the first time I saw it, and I'm not Russian either!
Yeah, it is quite confusing for other people, but for us, Russians, it is easy to learn slavic languages like Polish
Because "lubi" means "like". Loving something is stronger than liking something. "Love" is something like "kocham", but I'm no expert either!
I can guess many correct answers but if I was having a conversation with no visual words to choose from, I would be completely stuck
Late reply, but I find that turning off the word bank helps to remember the words.
I am having a hard time understanding the cases. Why in this phrase "ser" does not change?
"lubić" takes Accusative, and this is Accusative. We could say that "ser" (Nominative) changed into "ser" (Accusative), even if they're identical.
The following genders have the Accusative form identical to the Nominative one: masculine inanimate singular, neuter singular, 'not masculine-personal plural'.
"ser" is masculine and inanimate, so the form looks identical, but technically it did change.
I understand it was a listening exercise? What version of Duo are you using - web, iOS app or Android app?
"to" is a neuter form. "mysz" is a feminine noun (although it looks like a masculine one, it's an exception). So they don't match.
Not to confuse with "To mysz." = "To jest mysz.", so "[This/That/It] is a mouse." - there it's a dummy pronoun, serving the function of the subject of the sentence.