"Those children love animals."

Translation: Tamte dzieci kochają zwierzęta.

[AdamMlodoz]

Why isn't it "ci" for dzieci? Or does it only mean "these"?

[luless]

Ci and tamci (these and those) are for masculine-personal plural. Te and tamte (these and those) are for NON-masculine-personal plural.

[Matthew_Phelps]

So, is it "tamte" versus "tamci" because dziecko and dzieci are neuter? That's confusing, because there are certainly males in that group!

[Matthew_Phelps]

Perhaps it is much more about the grammatical gender of the word, not the meaning? Marek, help.

[Jellei]

Well, you don't know, maybe there are only girls among those particular children :P But you're right. The grammatical gender is important here, the fact that the word is neuter. So even if those children are actually boys-only, if you decided to say 'children' and not 'boys', they're not masculine-personal.

There are very few neuter words that describe people... actually the only other word that I can think of right now is "niemowlę" (baby, infant - one that doesn't talk yet).

[Matthew_Phelps]

Dzięki, pomożesz mi dużo, jak zwykle.

niemowlę. Never going to forget that, b/c of its etymology:

nie (not) + mow- (speaking)

[Jellei]

"pomagasz" makes more sense, as it's Present Tense. Although I hope that "pomożesz" (you will help) will be true as well :)

[Will127979]

Word order question. Seems like when a direct object is a personal pronoun the DO goes before the verb. Is this true of regular nouns as well? Is there a rule for how we should know or do we just have to learn what sounds right to a native speaker?