"The sandwich is tasty!"
Translation:Kanapka jest smaczna!
25 CommentsThis discussion is locked.
I'm having some trouble with this word. It seems there are 3 versions of smaczna, one that ends in -a one that ends in -e and one that ends in -y. Now i understand when to use the -a one but what about the other 2
-y ending is masculine.
-a ending is feminine.
-e ending is neuter. (and also 'not masculine-personal plural)
Actually, under certain circumstances this is something you might see. For example „Kanapka smaczna, ale baton smaczniejszy”. But this isn't something you should think about too much while you are still learning. It's generally safer to use „jest”.
No. You can only use this construction with nouns (i.e. '(noun) to (noun)' ). 'Smaczna' is an adjective, so it doesn't work.
Some dialects might form questions just like this, but I've never heard it in declaratory sentences.
I have an example of a poem/song with a sentence beginning with the construction "[noun] to [adj.]": http://www.kaczmarski.art.pl/tworczosc/wiersze/scena-to-dziwna/ (but of course poetry has its own rules and in this example "[noun] to [adj.]" isn't the whole sentence).
It's a totally different thing, of course. It's just "To dziwna scena" with changed word order (and in sentences like these you can drop „jest”). I forgot about such possibility, but it's perfectly understandable.
No, never. Feminine nouns can end in -ę (in Accusative), but no adjective ever ends this way.
It so happens that I just gat a way wit "smachne" in this sentence.. Lucky me.. (o:
In neuter and non-masculine-personal genders you can have „smaczne” (spelled with normal e).
Since the word-final ę can be pronounced as normal e, the word „smacznę”, if it existed, could sound the same as „smaczne”.
Przykłady: Smaczny pomidor Smaczny ziemniak Smaczny ryż
Smaczne pomidory Smaczne ziemniaki Smaczne jajko, smaczne jajka Smaczne chipsy
Smaczna zupa Smaczna kawa Smaczna wołowina
You can only use the construction with "to" if you have nouns (or noun phrases) on both its sides. Here, on the right side there's just an adjective.
More info here: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16373167
I've seen comments saying to use -y when it is masculine. Could someone tell me how to differentiate the gender? Like how is "Smaczny" masculine while "Smaczna" is feminine?
For adjectives (and we're only discussing the basic, Nominative forms), masculine adjectives end with -y or -i, feminine ones end with -a and neuter ones end with -e.