Topic: Polish

"Nie pracują tu żadni mężczyźni."

Translation:No men work here.

January 13, 2016

17 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/roman_f1
  • 1404

"No man works here" - why not?

January 13, 2016
https://www.duolingo.com/TheCooyon

    It would be "Nie pracuje tu żaden mężczyzna"

    January 13, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/roman_f1
    • 1404

    In English these two sentences mean the same.

    January 13, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/vytah
    • 1324

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

    January 14, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/cszerszen

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

      September 1, 2018
      https://www.duolingo.com/Jellei
      Mod

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

        September 2, 2018
        https://www.duolingo.com/lildzel

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

          November 11, 2017
          https://www.duolingo.com/Jellei
          Mod

            Makes sense, added.

            November 12, 2017
            https://www.duolingo.com/Henry132109

              No men here work?

              February 20, 2018
              https://www.duolingo.com/Jellei
              Mod

                I think that says a different thing, that "Out of the men here, no one does any work"...

                February 20, 2018
                https://www.duolingo.com/Walkinthedog
                • 102

                Does there aren't any men working here work?

                November 28, 2018
                https://www.duolingo.com/Isaac444706

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

                  January 9, 2019
                  https://www.duolingo.com/Jellei
                  Mod

                    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...

                    January 9, 2019
                    https://www.duolingo.com/Arnoldpitt

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

                      March 1, 2019
                      https://www.duolingo.com/Jellei
                      Mod

                        It gets softened during declension.

                        March 1, 2019

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