"Moja córka jest studentką."
Translation:My daughter is a student.
January 1, 2016
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Because the case you have to use in this sentence is not the nominative. "Moja córka to studentka", but "Moja córka jest studentką", see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/studentka#Polish.
BenYoung84
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English is very consistent about putting an article in front of nouns, so writing "My daughter is a student" follows standard English rules and omitting the "a" is incorrect.
I'm afraid that's just inaccurate. Every sentence which is built as "[noun] jest/są [noun]" puts one noun in the instrumental case. And the -ą ending is only for feminine nouns, as well as masculine nouns that end in -a. Other masculine and neuter nouns get an -(i)em ending and plural nouns get an -ami ending.