"My sister has many friends."

Translation: Moja siostra ma wiele koleżanek.

[Dee150766]

Why can't wiele go with przyjaciół. What is the difference between wiele and wielu

[Olexsa]

wielu m pers pl (other plural wiele) - many, much, a lot

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wielu

[Erika999377]

I thought kolezanek was a colleague

[Jellei]

We recently resigned from putting "colleague" as the main translation, because it narrows the meaning too much and in a way it can be even considered a false friend.

The problem is that "friend" is very vague from the Polish point of view. It doesn't say much about how close the friendship is. So "koleżanka" is someone whom you (probably) like, but is not among your closest friends (przyjaciele). But it can also be just a colleague from work. Or a schoolmate, or a classmate. Frankly, it's also a rather vague word.

[kristina631889]

If a group of friends contained both males and females would you consider them simply as kolegi or would you have to say both kolegi i kolezanki (in the required cases)?

[Jarek371614]

Kolegów isn't wrong, is it? This app is just sexist.

[PonyDesu]

kolegów should be correct provided that you change wiele into wielu. The whole sentence should look like this: Moja siostra ma wielu kolegów.

[IE99]

And what about "moja siostra ma dużo kolegów?"

[Jellei]

Perfectly fine.

[IE99]

Thanks, it was marked as incorrect

[TheCooyon]

"friends" is both male and female (koledzy i koleżanki). It should be accepted

[A-dot-Ham]

What is wrong with the sentence "Moja siostra ma wielu przyjacielów"?

[alik1989]

Genitive plural is "przyjaciół"

[Christian7652]

If i negate the sentence does wiele change to some kind of genitive or is it unchangeable?
Thxs

[alik1989]

Yes, it changes to nie ma wielu.

[RTIrEX]

"moja siostra ma wiele przyjaciół" should be acceptable, right? I was marked wrong.

[Jellei]

Oh, that's actually a nice surprise that although you only had one letter wrong you still were failed, because this is in fact a mistake.

"wiele" is used with the 'not masculine-personal plural' nouns, so for example "many female friends" is "wiele przyjaciółek".

But for 'masculine-personal plural' nouns ("przyjaciele" imply there's at least one man among them), the right form is "wielu". "Moja siostra ma wielu przyjaciół".