"Ten pies je mięso."
Translation:This dog eats meat.
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M: usually ends with consonant (vowel is possible, but only if you are talking about person/animal, and you know its gender)
F: usually ends with -i, -a (there are some exceptions)
N: ends with -o, -e, -ę
Like i said as nice as English one but I think it is not used for female wolves and other canines.
But we have ways to go around this kind of thing- so we often call female dogs '"suczka" - diminutive. This can also be used to describe a woman, but it's different kind of insult.
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It's the exact same in Russian, suka is as bad as in English and in Polish, and we also say sućka to go around the bad connotation. I love Slavic languages!
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I also am wondering this. The previous question was "to pies ..", now "ten pies.." for "this dog". how do you determine which one and why one vs. the other?
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to jest pies means "This is a dog." The to stays gender-neuter because "this" is used as a noun and is the subject of the sentence. Ten pies je means "This dog eats." The ten modifies pies so it's gender masculine.
I was thinking the same thing as jenretten. I got it wrong because I wrote "to pies je." Your explanation is the very clear. Thanks.
If "ję" was a word (it's not), it would sound more like "je" anyway...
The male slow voice does sound more like "ję", true. I disabled it. The audio is really far from perfect.
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cat in polish grammer is masculine by default is dog also masculine by default (gramatically)?
Yes, the 'default' words for "kot" and "pies" are grammatically masculine.
I have a female cat, called Zuzia. Sometimes I talk about her in masculine (Kot jest głodny = The cat is hungry), when I just use the word "kot", and sometimes in feminine when I use her name (Zuzia jest głodna = Zuzia is hungry).
To make it clear that a cat is female, the word for a female cat is "kotka".
And the word for a female dog is "suka" or "suczka", but those have exactly the same negative connotations as the English word for a female dog.
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It's the opposite in Russian. A cat, koszka, and dog, sobaka, are the default words and are feminine. Although we still call a male cat "kot" and a małe dog "pios."
Is there a difference between "this dog eats meat" and "this dog is eating meat"? Because the first sounds like the dog eats regularly, whereas the latter sounds like he's just eating right now..
Normally, Polish grammar doesn't make such distinction. It doesn't matter if you do something regularly or at the moment, you use the same verb. There are two exceptions to that:
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Some verbs do have habitual forms that you can use if you want, but they are not really required. Here, you could say „Ten pies jada mięso” to mean "This dog eats meat" as opposed to "This dog is eating meat". „Ten pies je mięso” could mean either "This dog eats meat" or "This dog is eating meat".
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Verbs of motion have both habitual and continuous forms that are required. You will learn the difference in a later lesson.
I'm just wondering why its "Ten pies je mięso" and "To pies je mięso"? I was told today that To= this.. what is the difference between To and Ten and when should i use which?