"Oni są u mojej mamy."
Translation:They are at my mom's.
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Fun fact: When you are a Serb reading this sentence naively, trying to translate word for word, you get "Oni su u mojoj mami", which means "They are inside my mother".
cool that we have a kinda genitive case for pronouns, makes the polish genitive case easier to learn :)
Is like when you're "at" a person('s place). Like "u mamy", "u lekarza", "u fryzjera."
No po pierwsze powinno być 'they', ponieważ 'there' nie jest zaimkiem osobowym.
A "my mom's" to taki skrót od wyrazu "my mom's place", dosłownie: "miejsce mojej mamy". Bez tego 's zdanie by nie miało sensu.
i was told that 'over' -as in i am 'over' x person's house- would work as a translation here too?
"We have" = mamy = "beloning to mom". Are there puns in Polish that make use of this double meaning?
I don't think there are. Sure, you can say "Mamy mamy" (We have moms) and the same thing can mean "Mom's moms", but I just thought about it right now (probably not the first person in history to think of that though), I don't recall hearing any jokes about that.
I continually object to the use of mom and dad here. They're too colloquial. I'm more likely to say "my mother's house" to the average person outside my family.
You can use "mother" if you like (at least when you use the option to type your answer), but "mom/dad" really are the most straightforward equivalents of "mama/tata".
I like to think of it as being "at mom('s place)." Kind of like the English equivalent: -I'm at Anna's place - Jestem u Anny. -You're at the doctor's (clinic) - Jesteś u lekarza. -He is at the barber's (shop) - On jest u fryzjera.