"Nie pracują tu żadni mężczyźni."

Translation: No men work here.

[roman_f1]

"No man works here" - why not?

[TheCooyon]

It would be "Nie pracuje tu żaden mężczyzna"

[roman_f1]

In English these two sentences mean the same.

[vytah]

So do those two sentences in Polish, but Duolingo focuses on literal translations, which preserve not only meaning, but also form and style.

[cszerszen]

Is there a reason for putting the subject of the sentence at the end? Would żadni meżçzyźni tu nie pracują be correct?

[Jellei]

It's fine, it just shifts the emphasis from 'absolutely no men' to 'aren't working'.

[Walkinthedog]

Does there aren't any men working here work?

[Arnoldpitt]

Why does a diacritical mark suddenly appear above the final z?

[Jellei]

It gets softened during declension.

[Lt_Serebryakov]

It's going to be hard for me, personally, to get used to double negatives DX lol

[lildzel]

isn't "there aren't any men" the same as "there are no men" though?

[Jellei]

Makes sense, added.

[Isaac444706]

"Tutaj mężczyzn nie pracują" isn't another way to write this sentence?

[Jellei]

No, because "mężczyzn" makes no sense here. Did you put it in Genitive because the sentence is negated? But it's the subject of the sentence, it has to stay in Nominative...

[DariuszCzu1]

Nie pracują tu mężczyźni

[pasunparisien]

"None of the men work here" ?

Or is that too specific?

[Jellei]

I think that in such a sentence "the men" means "these men" (some specific ones), so it really would need to be "żadni z tych mężczyzn".

[Possia]

There are no men work here

I think maybe my sentence is also correct...

[alik1989]

Well, this doesn't work. You can say "there are no men who work here", though.

[Possia]

Thank you~