"Panie i panowie!"
Translation:Ladies and gentlemen!
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Nah, try year - rok, years - lata;
human - człowiek, humans - ludzie;
Friend/Friends - N -przyjaciel / przyjaciele
G - przyjaciela / przyjaciół
D - przyjacielowi / przyjaciołom
A - przyjaciela /przyjaciół
I - przyjacielem / przyjaciółmi
L - (o) przyjacielu / przyjaciołach
Panowie is consistent with ojcowie, synowie. However "bracia" is the unusual one for me.
As you should! You've just spotted one of the words-exceptions on account of their plural forms. Amongst others are 'mężczyzna-mężczyźni' and 'ksiądz-księża'.
The ending '-owie' is actually highly irregular. We have the most common ones: pan-panowie, profesor-profesorowie, mąż-mężowie, pasażer-pasażerowie, uczeń-uczniowie. However, there are some rarely used ones (kapitan-kapitanowie), and when Polish people don't use such words too often, they may even forget about this ending and pronounce it incorrectly on accident (kapitan-kapitani). So you may once again see how irregular and strange this one is.
the speeches in Poland ussually start with "Szanowni Państwo, Panie i Panowie" ( unless of course there is not a litany of more distinguished guests. like prime minister, mayor, bishop, school director)
In my Polish textbook I had a funny picture with tourists by a broken bus and the guide was calling: Zapraszamy panie na szpacerek a panów do pchania wozu (I am citing from memory). That was a good example for panie/panowie distinction.
Everything's fine, apart from the fact that it had to be 'spacerek' (little walk, from 'spacer') :)
It certainly sounds markedly different to how 'panie' sounds in the later audio question: 'Czy panie sprzedają parasole'
I mean you kind of know from context, and I guess that's the point, but even so...
I guess it doesn't matter since the Nominative is the same, but I assume this is Vocative, since we're speaking to them?
Yeah, technically it is. So there is some Vocative in this course after all :D
me too? needs exclamation point? which is odd since duolingo never notes query marks as making any difference!
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Just to be clear: yes, we have seen proof that bugs happen and the user's perfect answer was rejected. But most often... the problem is just a typo.
Well no, the ladies are definitely mentioned first, in both languages.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Polish_pronouns#Formal_second-_and_third-person_pronouns
Click on "show" and you will get the declension tables for all formal pronouns. Note that panna is somewhat archaic nowadays.
