"Personel pracuje."
Translation:The staff is working.
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This translation is incorrect in English. "No-one who speaks English would ever say the staff is working -meaning one person .Staff refers to a group. They would say the staff are working ,the employee is working,the staff member is working etc.
I totally agree. In the UK, we say "the staff work" or "the staff are working".
"The staff is working" means something along the lines of the stick, that is called a staff, is working.
Maybe "the staff work" is a better translation, because "staff" is a collective noun, and is singular (though I'm sure I've heard both)
In the UK, it is more common to hear "the staff work". We see collective nouns as a plural noun most of the time.
In the UK, "the staff work" or "the staff works" technically make sense, but only in the general sense ie they work sometimes / they have a job, which is obvious by the fact that they are staff.
We'd say 'the staff are working' to refer to staff who are working right now.
Very similar to the French word ''Personnel" which of course means staff :). Kind of glad that Polish has French vocabulary, makes things easier.
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Around XVI to early XX century France was very influential. From that period comes most of the loanwords. Some of them actually still retains their original spelling despite not conforming to the Polish orthography rules.
Can Duoling clarify if "personel pracuje " means one person is working or the entire staff group is working .
Incorrect English as staff is a collective noun. What on earth is meant here?
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Why isn't "The employee is working" accepted? Is there a different Polish word that means "employee"? (The Polish verb is singular so this made the most sense to me when translating to English. Otherwise I would say the staff are working, but then it is plural.)
pracowac -> pracuje, mowic - mowie. Do all verbs with infinitive in -ovac behave like this?
-ować conjugation IV
- ić (mówić)conjugation VIa
they both end with "ę" in present first person singular
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On the last exercise you translated personel to the english personnel, wich the discussion showed nobody uses. Now you translate it to staff. I wonder if it will count as a mistake if I use staff every single time...
Why is it pracuje and not pracują? I would have thought staff would be multiple people and therefore = they/pracują