"Kupujemy jajka od tego mężczyzny."

Translation: We are buying eggs from this man.

[iamZemmi]

I do I know 'od' means from and not for in the context of this sentence?

[tadjanow]

'We are buying eggs for this man' would be 'Kupujemy jajka dla tego mężczyzny'.

[iamZemmi]

ok, thanks!

[zorrosombra]

Który sprzedaje swoje jajka?

[BenConway6]

Maybe it's just me, but I don't hear the 'k' at the beginning, and the p sounds like a b. I just hear 'ubujemy'.

[MrDrunkenpet]

What case of meżczyzna is "meżczyzny"? Accusative? Duolingo doesn't telle unfortunately...

[BenConway6]

It's in the genitive case. Words following 'od' are in the genitive, which changes a final 'a' to 'y', or in some nouns 'i'.

[DiegoEnriq868055]

So, how would you say "We are buying eggs from these men"?

[Jellei]

"Kupujemy jajka od tych mężczyzn".

[jw8DP]

Isn't off this man correct english too?

[fastas1]

It's definitely used by native speakers. Whether it is "correct English", grammatically, i can't say....

[Jellei]

I asked the native English speakers from our team and they said it's British slang, possibly even "just London slang".

[fastas1]

Not just London. Im Scottish, lived in different areas of Scotland, and England and it is used. Predominantly used, perhaps not, but still "often enough".....

[Jellei]

Well, we'd prefer to keep to the standard forms.

[fastas1]

That's of course up to you folks what you accept into your software, but just highlighting it here for your students so that they know about it when they hear it said by quite a few natives... :)

[Tygrys_kotem]

Possible in part of America ad well, but verrry slangy. Would never be considered standard.

[eannaoc]

Different preposition but you can say "I am buying eggs /off/ this man" to mean the same thing as "from"

[Jellei]

As discussed above, this is considered too regional/colloquial to accept it.

[Gali_VB]

We buy in some place not from someone, but we may buy for someone, just the meaning is different. I thought that the best way to express it was "at the man's (place)" but it wasn't accepted.

[Jellei]

The Facebook group of my osiedle (housing estate?) has several posts per month from a guy that sells high-quality eggs and he would bring them to my door if I wanted. I think that "from this man" works quite well ;)

[Waldek931086]

Powinno być zaakceptowane. Nie wiadomo czy kupujemy ciągle czy w tej chwili.

[Jellei]

Twoja odpowiedź nie jest w żaden automatyczny sposób dodana do Twojego komentarza. Gdybyś nie kliknął "Report", nikt by nie wiedział, co odpowiedziałeś.

Ale na szczęście zgłosiłeś swoją odpowiedź (dzięki, doceniamy!) i obawiam się, że to po prostu kwestia literówki. W odpowiedzi było "but", nie "buy". Poza tą literówką wszystko było poprawnie.