"Jesteśmy tacy sami."

Translation: We are the same.

[Paragonium]

I don't really get the function or meaning of 'tacy' here, can someone help explain that?

[immery]

"tacy sami/ takie same" means "the same"

it's an expression in which two words have a very different meaning when together.

[skahmed]

Could this also mean "We are so alone"?

[luless]

No, it would be Jesteśmy tacy samotni.

Sam/sami == alone or same, but you use them completely different than in English.
'I am tired' ' Same' => 'Jestem zmęczony' 'Ja tak samo'.

This is one of those words that is hard to explain to foreigner, but natives understand different meanings and know when to use it.

[Augustine2017]

Hi. Can you explain further "Ja tak samo." ?
Does it mean "I am the same" ?
I have seen it translated as "neither am I".
Tks.

[Vengir]

The translation was pretty much spot on. If we were literal, it would be "I the same way".

The word "tak" in the example you provided is used to signify a method. Somebody might answer the "jak" (how) question with "tak" while showing or demonstrating the method. I think it's slightly different from "tak" in the "so much" sense.

[MarjanvanK]

do you mean: I am tired. me too ?

[Jellei]

Yeah. It's kinda like "I feel the same", "I think the same", etc.

[Vengir]

Better to use "samotni" instead of "sami" then, that's less confusing.

[Gerardd88]

You can say for example "Jesteśmy (tutaj) sami" = "We are (here) alone", though. It's because of meanings and use of the words alone and lonely in English. Alone, meaning lonely, left, abandoned is always samotny in Polish.

[Kalle384481]

Would "we are so similar" make sense?

[Jellei]

No, it's not enough. The Polish sentence is closer to "identical".

[z1z2z]

I put, "We are so alike." and it was marked wrong.

[Jellei]

I believe that's still "similar".

Added "We are alike", though. What a weird word, if it can mean both 'similar' and 'identical'...

[gkouye]

"Alike" in this context is much closer to "the same" or "identical" than "similar".

[Mrs.Mop]

Alike is definitely similar

[Ten_Pies_I_Brew]

Could this be translated literally as "We are like each other"?

[Craig842379]

In Polish, would 'Jesteśmy tacy sami' be more like the emphatic English 'We are SO the same', or is 'tacy sami' a set expression without that emphasis which means more simply 'We are the same', as the correct Duo answer seems to suggest?

[FredFukada]

Is it only possible for a man to express similarity to another man/male being?
What would a woman say then?

[alik1989]

women only - takie same

men only or mixed group - tacy sami

[Jellei]

I wouldn't look for any special emphasis here.