"Nasz kot rzadko je mięso."

Translation: Our cat rarely eats meat.

[sirwootalot]

Jeśli wasz kot rzadko je mięso, to jest niezdrowy!

[DiegoMaria15]

Why are all the internet explanations about "rzadko" are linked with the word "zdarza" ?? Please explain

[immery]

beacuse "It rarely happens" is very common thing to say/write?

Rzadko zdarza się, aby.../
To się rzadko zdarza.

[DiegoMaria15]

I get it now. Thanks

[96314081311257]

Are other word orders valid here? Like:

Nasz kot je mięso rzadko. (I guess this one would put the emphasise on rzadko?)

Nasz kot je rzadko mięso.

Rzadko nasz kot je mięso.

&c?

[Jellei]

All those seem... acceptable, I guess. The second one the least. But the original one is definitely the most natural ;)

[96314081311257]

Dzięki!

[zorrosombra]

That's animal cruelty. Someone who forces a carnivore to eat only vegetables and other plantbased materials, is torturing the poor creature. He harms the health and shortens the life expectancy of the animal.

[Denyeris]

Use "our cat eats meat seldom", but get "seldom is wrong word". Why?

[Jellei]

Seems fine, added.

[LucBE]

The word order is wrong, I believe.

[Jellei]

Yeah, now I know that it is. Removed.

[Augustine2017]

Our cat seldom eats meat.
"seldom" at the end seems awkward.

[akikotsukamoto]

I think to say in English " our cat eats meat rarely " ( as I wrote)
is just as correct

[Jellei]

I was told by natives that "rarely" rather shouldn't go at the end of the sentence.

[GP62HE]

It's not wrong...but sounds better to put 'rarely' elsewhere in the sentence

[Dino--]

"Our cat eats meat rarely" is not acceptable?

[alik1989]

It appears that adverbs of frequency cant't be put at the end (or beginning) of a sentence in English.

[Augustine2017]

They can go at the beginning of the sentence, but it would be "Seldom (or, Rarely) does our cat eat meat.
A bit formal.

[ad21npd]

"our cat eats meat rarely" is certainly acceptable English, the sort of usage i would expect hear any day. This rule about adverbs of frequency not being acceptable are the start or end of a sentence is not correct. Lots of sentences start with 'rarely'. Rarely a day goes by without me hearing a sentence beginning with 'rarely'!

[alik1989]

Alright, maybe my statement was a bit oversimplified. I've compared the following structures in the iweb corpus:

verb + noun + rarely + full stop

33 results

rarely + verb + noun + full stop

3672 results

That makes a ratio of 1:111, which makes it eligible for rejection, IMHO.

Edit: I've just realised that 'rarely' in all those weird positions has been accepted all along, so I think I'll just leave it as it is.

[wladszab]

'Our cat eats meat rarely' -- what's wrong?

[Jellei]

Our team had a long discussion on whether it's okay to put "rarely" at the end of the sentence, I guess we can allow it after all.

[wladszab]

Got it, thank you.

[Matt780998]

Ale koty jedzą tylko mięso. ;-;

[alik1989]

Nasz kot natomiast się utożsamia z wartościami lewicowymi, w związku z czym przejawia skłonność do wegetarianizmu.

[Anna676141]

Our cat hardly ever eats meat. Nie zostało uznane. Byłabym wdzięczna za podpowiedź, dlaczego?

[alik1989]

Jestem ciekaw jak wpadłaś na ten pomysł. We wskazówkach tego wyrazu nie ma, a dosłowne tłumaczenie polskiego 'rzadko' to też nie jest. Polski odpowiednik prawdopodobnie by brzmiał 'niemal nigdy', czyli rzadziej niż rzadko.

Dobra, nie będę Ci już zawracał głowy, dodam 'hardly ever' do listy. Nasi współautorzy z Anglii uważają, że różnica nie jest aż tak znacząca, żeby to uzasadniło odrzucenie.

[Anna676141]

Hardly ever - chodzi za mną jeszcze od szkoły podstawowej, kiedy to nauczycielka widząc, jak dzieciaki zwijają sobie języki w pętelkę próbując wymówić rarely, powiedziała, że się poddaje i możemy mówić hardly ever...