"Oni są mężczyznami."

Translation: They are men.

[JedenPolska]

What exactly is the instrumental case?

[immery]

It is a grammatical case no5 (narzędnik), that among other

• is used after jestem (I am), zostałem (I became), interesuję się (I am interested in)

• is used to indicate tools used while doing something
  Jadą samochodem / they go by car
  Tnę to nożyczkami/I am cutting it with scissors

• is used after z(ze) when it translates to with
  Idę z tobą/ I walk with you

• is used after pod, nad, za when action is static

[IsabelJura8]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who thought of Mulan xD

[AleksanderNc]

I thought too!!

[martinche2]

For the life of me, she's not saying 'mężczyznami'; she's saying 'mężczyzna'. I know the right answer is 'mężczyznami', but it's not what she's saying...

[Jellei]

It really sounds fine on my end...

[VioletInLA]

I agree. I hear her saying "On są mężczyzna"

[Jellei]

Again, the audio is complete, perhaps it's a bug that happens on your device? Well, not only yours? I really don't know.

[immerweiter]

why is ami written at the end

[immery]

because in sentences like this
noun "jest/są" noun ,
the second noun is in Instrumental case, and plural instrumental of mężczyzna is mężczyznami

[IanIanIanIan_]

but there was this same line in a past lesson but spelled with just -i and not -ami. What is instrumental ? i dont think they have tips/notes about it? Thanks

[immery]

In Polish language nouns, adjectives and pronouns change according to the role they play in a sentence, or after specific verb and/or preposition.

There are seven cases, which means any noun has 7x2 variants, 7 singular, 7 plural
( often they look the same but you must know which noun has which cases equal)
Cases in Polish amean the ending of the noun changes.

jestem+ noun use Instrumental case.

Instrumental from mężczyzna(singular =man) -> mężczyzną
mężczyźni(plural=men)-> mężczyznami

[conor.raff]

You're right, the notes ran out before the first checkpoint. I've got on through another 20 or so lessons and haven't seen one tip or note yet. I guess that's why its a Beta product. Having said that, I'm glad its out there and I'm glad they didnt wait until it was all singing all dancing as then I couldn't be having as much fun with it as I'm having now...

Now that I've got a grammar book I'm back revising all this stuff and trying to work out why everything is the way it is. Its a good strategy for me because the grammar book is short on exercises.

[conor.raff]

Maybe you saw "to są mężczyzni" which would be correct because "to jest" or "to są" uses the Nominative case, in which case -i is the correct ending and not -ami.

I know, its a headf**K lol

[idanlipin]

Mężczyźni*

[immerweiter]

thank you, you can explain very well

[Vengir]

Because it's in plural instrumental case.

[manuna84]

Are jest and są different verbs, or different forms of the same verb?

[Vengir]

Just different forms. „Jest” is third person singular, while „są” is third person plural. Both are for present tense.

[Roseanne125901]

I just read a post stating that "oni" is for groups with no male. "One" is for groups containing at least 1 male. Which term is CORRECT? ?

[Vengir]

Somebody must have written that post backwards. "Oni" is for groups containing at least one male, and "one" is for female-only groups.

[erinmelaniee]

why "oni"? if they are men, then why not "one sa mezczynami"?

[Jacek.Placek]

Because men is the <h4>masculine</h4> form of noun and "oni" also is the <h4>masculine</h4> form of noun(or something else, I don't know) so not "one". "One" is the female form of noun!

[VioletInLA]

The recording says he is a man, not they are men

[jablll]

Whats the difference between mężczyźni and mężczyznami??

[Jellei]

"mężczyźni" is Nominative, "mężczyznami" is Instrumental.

You can read more about cases here: https://mowicpopolsku.com/polish-grammar/cases/