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- "Dziewczynka je rybę."
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"dziewczynka" is the diminutive form of "dziewczyna". You can think of "dziewczynka" as "little girl" if it helps.
Other than that, "dziewczyna" can also mean "girlfriend".
Because "girl is eating fish" and even "girl is eating a/the fish" don't make sense in English - you need an indirect or direct article before the "girl" (either is fine, in this case), even though they don't exist in Polish. You don't need an article before "fish", however.
i've written "the girl eats a fish" and this is accepted. Sounds a little strange.)
I answered "A girl is eating fish" and it was incorrect without the "a" in front of fish.
Is it though? When you're eating fish fingers you can say "Mam rybę na talerzu" or "Mamy rybę na obiad", although it most probably isn't singular fish. I believe you can use ryba as an uncountable noun, similarly to eg. mięso.
"ryba" is the basic, Nominative form, used mostly for the subject of the sentence.
"rybę" is the Accusative form, used for the direct object of the sentence.
Well, still you have to write a correct English sentence, so you need an article.
Is there any link to a guide through the cases (accusative, nominative, instrumental, is thwre any other?)? Thank you!
You can look through the posts here: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16296174
Or visit mowicpopolsku.com
Not fair that in one case I got a mistake for putting "a" before the fish and now in an identical sentence I get a mistake for not putting "a" before fish lol
