"Zawsze jem śniadanie."
Translation:I always eat breakfast.
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It's pretty much equivalent to "I always eat breakfast", but I guess DL is just trying to teach the literal difference between the verbs "Mieć" and "Jeść".
In Polish "mieć" does not mean eat. "zawsze mam śniadanie"- is not about eating breakfast, but more I always take breakfast with me.
I should have said that "I always have breakfast" and "I always eat breakfast" are pretty much equivalent in_English. I didn't mean to imply equivalence in Polish; quite the opposite, in fact.
The point is actually that both "eat" and "have" are accepted, and both have been accepted for two years!
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Apparently ś is softer than sz. But this English speaker can't really tell the difference. Yet. ;-)
I had an English teacher, I think he was American, who always said my friend's name "Kasia" as kasza- buckwheat. :)
Why was "I am always eating breakfast" wrong? Is it because it's odd?
"I am always eating breakfast" means eating it every hour of the day. Which is a nonsensical meaning.
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Yeah but it's not true in English to say "Present continuous is not used to describe habitual activities". So you can say "I am always using Duolingo" and that is fine and has a slightly different meaning that "I always use Duolingo"....
Hmmm, just to say "Im always using Duolingo." on its own doesn't sound right. You would have to give it another time qualifier to limit the continuous activity and show that you didn't mean literally "all the time", e.g. "I'm always using Duolingo on the bus in the morning". You can say "I always use Duolingo" on its own and it doesn't express that you are doing it continuously.
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I offered "I always breakfast" which was rejected. to breakfast is a verb which means to eat breakfast.
Well... why not, added.
A Polish verb, similarly uncommon (I think...) and rather dated, is "śniadać". "Zawsze śniadam".