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- "Ja słucham muzyki."
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It really does.
Luckily the JA makes us think twice.
If there was no JA, wouldve thought she is saying słuchamy muzyki
I don't know... maybe the old male voice sounds a little bit like that? If someone didn't ask, I definitely wouldn't say it myself.
Actually, Ive just realised something recently (it may or may not help other learners)
Whenever two identical letters are next to each other in polish, they are pronounced very dinstictly and seperately.
I forget my polish examples now, but let's say in english..... If you add an extra 'o' to the word 'to', it becomes 'too' and is then pronounced differently as such.
But in polish (in theory only cos I've forgotten my examples) it would be pronounced "to-oh". Like to seperate Os
Going by that (made up) example, here we had two Ms in a row.....
SłuchaM Muzyki
Its that gap which is purposefully and distictly sounded in the middle which has made it sound (to me at least) as słuchaMY muzyki.
Especially as in english, the phrases 'random music' or 'dream man' would be spoken as 'randoMMusic' or 'dreaMMan'.
With no audible gap in between
I think this may help learners to make sure we seperate words distinctly, (especially when identical letters appear in sequence)
Yes, that gap may make it sound like there's some very short vowel after.
If you say just the letter "M" on its own (and not in the alphabet-reading way, which is "em"), then it will basically sound like "my".
It is simply that the verb "słuchać", when used to mean "to listen to", takes genitive.
Citation needed? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C5%82ucha%C4%87
Because the "słuchać"(indefinite) verb declines like this: ja słucham, ty słuchasz, on/ona słucha, my słuchamy, wy słuchacie, oni/one słuchają.
The verb "słyszeć" (definite) forms are : ja słyszę, ty słyszysz, on/ona słyszy, my słyszymy, wy słyszycie, oni/one słyszą.
Can someone explain me please, why "Ja słucham muzyki" means "I'm listening TO music" , not "I'm listeting music" . Its a lil bit weird "to music" , dont think ?
Well, that's just how English works, "I'm listening music" makes no sense.
The 'słucham' is 'listen to'. The 'to' bit is implied in the verb, not the noun (muzyki) in the example you just gave. E.g. in French, 'Ecouter' means 'to listen to' so youd say 'J'ecoute la radio' in a similar way
To listen is intransitive, an action, so no object. . To hear, is a transitive verb, meaning it takes an object. > I listen and I hear music.
Why does the verb here end in '-am' and not '-ię'? If memory serves me right, "to have" was the only verb so far that didn't end in '-ię' for singular, masculine subject. So, does "to listen" happen to follow the same grammar as "to have"? And if there are more verbs in this category, is there a distinct reason as to why they follow a different conjugation scheme?
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So far in this course:
Mam = I have
Jem = I eat
Jestem = I am
The "ę" is a nasal vowel and "m" is a nasal consonant - they are historically variants of each other.
Hey mate.
I went and found this video for you.
It is invaluable.
It explains that, in the present tense, all verbs fall into one of 4 different categories.
It is a very good video, very well explained, broken doen slowly, though I would reccomend watching it a few times over the coming weeks and months, as that way it becomes clearer the more you learn the language.
It is quite a thorough video and the guy is a good teacher.
Also it will help to make notes with a pen.
Hope it helps u as much as it did me.
Yes. You can drop the "ja" unless you want to emphasise that "I am listening to the music but he is not".
That seems to be correct, and it is also an accepted answer. If you made some typing error, then the "correct" answer shown would have been without "the".
I guess you are referring to "muzyki" here. It's an imported word (loan word) and the stress pattern can be different for such words.
For possibly more detail than you want to read, please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_phonology , particularly the section on Prosody.
There are some words of greek origin, which are exceptions. They are stressed on the antepenultimate (third-to-the-last) syllable. Muzyka, fizyka, biologia...
However, you might occasionally hear natives pronounce some of those words using the "regular" Polish stress pattern.
