"Nasza firma jest lepsza od konkurencji."

Translation: Our company is better than the competition.

[MiTaMuLu131513]

What does this sentence mean? Our company is better than competition? What competition?

[vytah]

"Competition" can be used to refer collectively or individually to economic competitors, i.e. other companies providing similar wares and services.

Polish word "konkurencja" means exactly that, among several other meanings.

[MiTaMuLu131513]

But the English translation is very unnatural

[vytah]

How would you phrase it better?

The course isn't supposed to teach people natural English, but natural Polish.

[Konrad-Michal]

The course is supposed to learn natural Polish with possibly natural English. Competitors would be a more natural translation.

[Jellei]

Well, on the one hand you could also write "konkurenci" (or rather "od konkurentów" here) in Polish, but you are right, that is a natural version and it's close enough to be added.

[vytah]

*teach

[Konrad-Michal]

Oczywiście, dzięki!

[Silmendil]

Well, it's true that the English phrase sounds a bit strange without context, let's be honest. But in any case, it's correct

[Aulawabbel]

Hm, it sounds natural to me :\

[kosmitka777]

I wrote "than competitors" and it was accepted

[Arnoldpitt]

Why is firm not accepted? It is the equivalent of company in English.

[Jellei]

It's an accepted answer, it should have worked. But if you perhaps made a typo somewhere, you got corrected to the main answer, which uses "company".

[PassportInHand]

Just a side question: why wouldn't one use "niż" instead of "od" <~> "better than competition"? Thank you :)

[Jellei]

One would, both "od konkurencji" ('od' + Genitive) and "niż konkurencja" ('niż + Nominative) are valid and accepted answers.