"Nie widzę tych lodów."
Translation:I do not see this ice cream.
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Yes lody is plural in form and can mean uncountable ice-cream, a portion of ice cream or more portions of ice-cream
There is also colloquial singular form "lód" with different declination than "lód"=ice, but it also has some sexual meaning so some phrases are better to avoid . http://sjp.pwn.pl/slowniki/lody.html
I'm always confused about the plural only nouns. How would you say "This ice cream is tasty."
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Why is "cream" necessary and not only just "ice"? I understand it is not the same, but could it not be ice cubes in the freezer or ice on a frozen lake or something?
The Polish sentence uses the plural here. That doesn't make sense when talking about a frozen lake, you would just use the singular. And ice cubes are kostki lodu. I'm unaware of anyone calling them lody.
The Type what you hear audio (which I reported, too) is very misleading. In both normal and slow audio I hear
"Nie widzę tych lautów"
which is far removed from the intended text.
The most natural plural form of "ice cream" in English would just be "ice cream." "Ice creams" sounds very weird to me, although I suppose it would be technically correct.
If you're at a cafe and you're ordering ice cream dessert by serving, or at an ice cream stand that serves ice cream in a cone, you would say for example "I'd like four ice creams".
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Also if you were talking about multiple types of ice cream, as is true of other uncountables (rice, tea, milk).
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People wouldn't say "they sell four ice creams here", it would be "types/kinds/flavours of ice cream", though. It's a strange one. It's true that the only time you'd hear "ice creams" is when ordering multiple at a cafe.
So "lody" is the basic, Nominative form (usually plural), then Accusative is identical (Widzę lody = I see ice cream) and negated Accusative is Genitive (Nie widzę lodów = I don't see ice cream).
Usually, unless you mean one 'ice cream on a stick' ("lód na patyku") but even then using the singular "lód" is considered colloquial. "lód" generally means just "ice".
If you can use some kind of a spoon to eat it, then it's plural.
I'm not sure what you're asking, but here's an overview of all the forms of 'ten':
Ten, ta, to, te - understand them all, but would love a good explanation of when to use 'tych.'
Tych is used in the genitive plural for all genders. The genitive is used with several prepositions, for expressing quantities, for expressing possession, and for the direct object in a negative sentence, where it would normally use the accusative in the positive. The ending '-ych' is also the same as the adjective endings in the plural genitive.
Tych, and the '-ych' ending on adjectives, is also used for the locative plural.