"Mówicie o warzywach."
Translation:You are speaking about vegetables.
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I was about to tell you this joke about carrots... but I know it's not grate...
Why is "warzywa" in the Locative? What does that case have to do with speaking about something?
Locative not only is used when describing position, it also answers questions "o kim?", "o czym?" (about who?, about what?)
Cheers for the info - but how is "you speak about vegetables" an answer to a question? Seems you have to make a pretty big assumption that the solution here is an answer to a question.
What 4d1n means is that in Polish, even the natives sometimes 'ask questions' to figure out which case is needed and what is the right form. And the basic questions that Locative answers to are "o kim? o czym?" (about whom? about what?) which don't really have much to do with the name "Locative".
Location isn't the only function of Locative, and not all prepositions denoting location take Locative.
why is this phrasing (to speak about) everywhere on duolingo? "to talk about" is much more natural. it makes me grunt every time
Because the most direct translation of "to talk about" is "rozmawiać", which is basically "to have a conversation". "speak" is at least less ambiguous, even if - I agree - less natural.
"You speak about vegetables" isn't correct, it should be 'You are speaking/talking about the vegetables', or 'Are you speaking/talking about the vegetables?'
I can agree that "You are speaking" is better (changed now), but I don't see how "You speak" (regularly) is wrong in a contextless sentence.
I know this could not be logical speaking real life but could this be translated as "you are speaking with vegetables?"
No, wrong preposition (and therefore wrong case as well). That would be "z warzywami".
Oh wait, and that would be "Rozmawiacie" as well. After all "speaking with" is a conversation ;)
I read in another book that mówic requires dative. Is this true? Obviously using o changes the case.
if anyone knows, if there is 'owoce', then we say 'Mówicie o owocach', without any changes in preposition?
