"Jesteśmy małżeństwem."

Translation: We are married.

[JustinHuberts]

But how, Duo never proposed to me?!

[pie3636]

So would the literal translation of this be "we are marriage"? Since małżeństwo was "marriage" a couple sentences ago

[Vengir]

Indeed, the literal meaning is "we are marriage".

[Yola448704]

It really makes no sense...

Jesteśmy małżeństwem - We are a married couple (literal translation)/We are married (commonly used interpretation)

[tadjanow]

'We are marriage' doesn't really make sense in English.

małżeństwo can mean either marriage or a married couple

[sirwootalot]

Nope! Since "małżeństwem" is Instrumental and not Accusative, it's more like "in a marriage" or "under a state of marriage".

[Vengir]

After "jesteśmy" you would normally use instrumental. No need to invent some even weirder translations: the literal one is "we are marriage" and the normal one is "we are married".

[Maria630955]

Why is "we're spouses" not accepted?

[Jellei]

OK, added.

[Maria630955]

Thanks!

[Yola448704]

The word "małżeństwo" has two meanings:

małżeństwo - marriage/the institution/the legal act of marriage/the state of the union
małżeństwo/para małżeńska/mąż i żona - married couple/husband and wife/spouses

to get married - pobrać się / zawrzeć związek małżeński / związać węzeł małżeński

Jesteśmy pobrani/Jesteśmy związani związkiem małżeńskim - We are married
Jesteśmy małżeństwem/Jesteśmy małżonkami - We are a married couple/spouses

[MaxVermeij]

In the recording of the female voice, there is clearly a rising intonation towards the end of the sentence, indicative of a question. Nevertheless, "Are we married?" is not accepted.

[alik1989]

And rightly so, since the original sentence lacks a question mark.

[timmytoy]

Both the fast and the slow audio have rising intonation which makes the sentence sound like a question, even if there is no "?" in the exercise. Any explanation?

[Jellei]

The text-to-speech technology is imperfect and has serious problems with intonation. But the new voices are better in this matter, the old female voice will probably soon be gone.

[apex59]

When I needed to type this in polish, the correct answer was rejected until I put a full stop at the end, seems a bit harsh!

One week later and it is still happening!

Also, I forgot to add before that this discussion was not linked from the question (I got here by searching) which tried to open the first time I clicked it, but the window self closed and then the button stopped working.

[Olha_Osia]

we are married couple

[alik1989]

This sentence is clearly missing an article.

[zombie_be_minime]

who said we

[mizinamo]

who said we

The -my verb ending.

[golden.plover]

We are a married pair?

[Becky57701]

'We are a married couple' is accepted but as 'pair' isn't usually used for a romantic (human) couple, except in the sense of 'a married pair of... jugglers/actors/ice skaters', it isn't accepted.
I agree that if plovers could speak and could get married, they might say they are a married pair!

[abcdef933419]

I was sure that a 'noun is adjective only' phrase doesnt decline the adjective's case. Only its gender and its count.

1) Am i correct on that?

2)Since the object here (marriage) is being declined here, its safe to say "marriage" is not an adjective (ie. describing us like "we are tall, we are hungry, we are busy.") It is a noun phrase. (Eg. We are men, we are teachers, we are married)

Is it ok to infer that from the fact that, if its declined for case, then it cant merely be an 'adjective without a noun'?

[Jellei]

1) If I understand you correctly, then yes. "Jabłko jest smaczne" just uses an adjective in Nominative.

2) Yes, "małżeństwo" is definitely not an adjective, it's a noun. English may use "We are married", but Polish is closer to "We are a married couple", with 'married couple' being one noun.