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I translated this as 'She is having coffee' - which makes sense in English. Like when you're at a cafe.
'What are you having? I'm having coffee'.
The only thing I can think is that the Polish don't use 'to have' in this circumstance, and rather use 'to order' or 'to drink'.
Can anyone confirm this?
December 23, 2015
Ona ma kawę means only that she's in possession of coffee and doesn't necessarily mean that she's drinking coffee.
December 23, 2015
"kawa" is feminine. All feminine nouns that end in -a in Nominative (so almost all of them) get the -ę ending when used in Accusative. The verb "mieć" (to have) needs Accusative.
December 30, 2016
