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- "Czy to jest nowe wino?"
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Pretty much what I was going to ask. Just bumped into the same "wrong" answer as well.
I am just making sure, but saying "Czy to nowe wino?" would have exactly the same meaning, correct? Would the "jest" would be implied in my sentence?
It's a neuter -o/-a noun with no irregular forms. Just like "piwo."
In english you say is this wine new, not is this new wine. Hence my answer is correct
You say it if you know it is wine. That translates to "Czy to wino jest nowe?".
You say it if you know it's wine. That translates to "Czy to wino jest nowe?".
Yes. "To" is not really one word, but 5 different words that have the same spelling, and they may appear side by side, and may also work with verbs. In this case, the word "to" is not a replacement for "jest", but a pronoun.
See also my extended explanation here.
Yes, you are allowed to do that. Or you could use just „to” here.
„To” isn't a true verb. When you use it in the "is" sense, what you in fact do is that you create a verbless sentence with „jest” that is simply assumed to be there.
What do you even mean by nowe wine? How can it be new?))0)) It can be young or whatever
New on the market, new in the shop, even a new bottle of wine that your spouse has bought. It only means this.
Yea, I was only getting used to the duolingo's style of sentences. Spasibo!
In this case is 'to' used to mean 'this' not as working with 'jest' or as a replacement for 'jest', to mean 'is,'? We seem to have 2 experts giving opposite interpretations i thought the first explanation but now i'm confused
Mine and br0d4's interpretations are in fact complimentary. When "to" is used in a sentence without a verb, it's just like "to jest" and you can switch between the two. Then the literal meaning of "to/to jest" is simply "this is", but in some English sentences that would sound weird, so it's then translated as "is". When "this is" fits, translate as "this is".
There are also other meanings of "to" that are not used here.
In Polish nouns have gender: masculine (divided into 3 subtypes), feminine or neuter. All other words that go with nouns (adjectives, pronouns, numerals, verbs etc.) have do adjust its declension and conjugation (verbs - except present tense) to the gender of nouns.
English "new" has therefore 3 forms in Polish: "nowy" (masculine), "nowa" (feminine) and "nowe" (neuter).
Almost all nouns that end with vowel -o (and -e, -ę or -um) are neuter, hence "new wine" has to be "nowe wino"
Further reading:
- Czy to wino jest nowe? - Is this wine new?
- Czy to (jest) nowe wino? - Is this new wine?
Also, not exactly synonymous.
Can I translate "Czy ... " → "Is it that ..." ? Czy to jest nowe wino? Is it that this is new wine?
I feel like this would help me understand when to use Czy (and the following jest) in Polish but I worry that I will mess up understanding in more complex situations.
I'm afraid that "is it that this is" isn't good/natural English. The closest English equivalent for "czy" I can think of is "is it true that..."
In this course we don't translate "czy" at all. But you can add it in any yes/no (polar) question.
Is wino neutral or masculine??? On the last lesson I had to translate "The wine is good" which the system corrected me 8 million times to the answer of "Wino jest dobrY" which is masculine. Now I get here and it is saying "nowy" is wrong, and it is the neutral form and should be "nowe". I am clearly missing something, please help!
There's no way the system corrected you to "Wino jest dobrY", "wino" is undoubtedly neuter, the right form of the adjective is "dobre" (and here: "nowe").
Perhaps, but it's still a different sentence ("Czy to wino jest nowe?").
