"A man is eating an apple."
Translation:Mężczyzna je jabłko.
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Męż=Me'zh Czyz=chez (e as in bed) Na= na If you separate it you'll memorize it easier :)
Many thanks - this has proved a great tip - I always spell it correctly now
A Polish one. Every device can easily enable it in the keyboard settings.
How exactly am i supposed to write the accents? I cant see them anywhere on my phone keyboard...
Long press the keys. Hold down the "z" key and it'll give you a few options: ź and ż are both there
If you have an android phone, hold down the letter and you'll see all the options. Dont know if ios is the same
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Only if you have multilingual keyboard in your settings switched on. And of you add polish as a lang :)
Download polish keyboard, just click settings on your keyboard and download polish
I was trying to figure out how to do the letter "ł" on my phone's keyboard for the longest while. It's under the letter "l" in case any one else was woundering.
Hover over the underdotted words. Its not "cheating" if you dont know anything. It gets you to recongnize the word.
if you are learning a language that is really hard like polish how are you supposed to remember how to spell the word if you are a beginner
The infinitive is "jeść". 1st person singular is "jem", 3rd person singular is "je".
I don't think there's any Duolingo way, I think only either as a bookmark or copy it to a Word document.
But actually shouldn't because the best English translation is "A man", not "The man". So we do not have "the" which could be understood as "this" and therefore translated as "ten" -> and "Pan je jabłko" on its own means "You're eating an apple, sir".
"Pan" (gentleman) is a bit formal but OK in some cases. You could probably also say "ten człowiek je jabłko" - "this man (in a sense of 'this' human') eats an apple".
Hold your finger on the letter for a moment and you'll see all the accent options.
Change your keyboard settings to Polish then, because it has basically the same things in the same places as English, plus the special characters.
What is the difference between mężczyzna and mężczyzną? When do I use accents?
a and ą are different letters and make different sounds - these are not "accents".
a is like a in English "ah" and ą is a bit hard to describe - a bit like saying "own" but then moving the tongue back (to hide 'w' part).
Grammatically these are to separate cases:
Nominative: A man is eating an apple - Mężczyzna je jabłko. ( subject is mężczyzna)
Instrumental: He is a man - On jest mężczyzną. (subject is 'on' and mężczyzną is object)
For pronounciation check: https://forvo.com/word/mężczyzną/
You get both ę and ą sounds. This is rather hard word to pronounce correctly.
why is it now saying facet je jabłko? facet is more informal. What about pan?
Deleted 'facet', it's more like 'guy'.
"pan" can work in "Ten pan je jabłko" (if you interpret 'the' as 'this'), but if you just say "Pan je jabłko", that is "You are eating an apple, sir". Formal You.
So ''Mezczyzna'' is ''A man'' and ''je'' is ''is eating an''? Or does it even make sense to try and translate it?
Well, literally, and word for word, "Mężczyzna je jabłko" just translates as "Man eats apple".
Polish has no articles, so, generally, you add "the" and "a"/"an" to make the English work. In this case, it can be "A man" or "The man", "eats" or "is eating", and "an apple" or "the apple".
Go to change keyboard and add Polish language in it . That will solve the problem of "ę","ż","ą",etc that you will encounter in the polish lessons. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day ❣️.
On PC and you get all extra letter selectable under the input box. Also: https://polishlingo.com/2017/08/30/how-to-type-polish-letters-in-windows-10-on-your-english-keyboard/
No, but you can simply enable the Polish keyboard in the settings of your device.
Well, it should be quite easy to enable it in the settings of your device.
Sometimes i say the sentence Multiple times before and after I press check
There is no Polish "w" in this sentence. Or do you mean the letter "ł"? There are plenty of suggestions as to how to turn on a Polish keyboard here, but it depends on your device.
You can go to the settings of your phone, find the keyboard settings, and enable a Polish keyboard.
It is in Accusative. "Jabłko" is a neuter noun, for which the Accusative is the same as the Nominative.
You can see the full declension for "jabłko" right here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jab%C5%82ko#Declension
"jabłkę" would be correct if the basic, singular word for "an apple" was a feminine noun "jabłka". But it's not.
Anyone know why sometimes there is no acent on the letters,for example mężczyzną
They aren't really 'accents', even though people often refer to them as such. But they are really different sounds, which just happen to be written using letters that resemble the 'basic' letters that are also in the English alphabet.
You can, you just need to add a Polish keyboard layout in your phone settings.
Go to the Settings and then find Keyboard settings, there you can enable a Polish keyboard. That basically means that when you longpress the 'basic letter' you will have the special characters among the options. For example you longpress L and you see Ł as an option.
Alternatively you can download an app like SwiftKey or GBoard.
Go to the Keyboard settings of your device and enable a Polish keyboard.
I need to practice typing mężczyzna on my English language keyboard. Is there a Polish analogue to "i before e, except after c" that will help with all of the cz, zc, and zcz words? And does the ending vowel change because of tense or gender?
The ending (there's no such thing as 'the ending vowel') generally changes through different grammatical cases, although in Nominative (the basic form of a noun), endings are also associated with gender. -a ending is usually feminine, "mężczyzna" is one of the exceptions - given its meaning, it's obviously masculine.
Well, one thing that is important here is that "cz" is one sound, so if we just had one letter for it, it would make some thing easier for learners ;)
Russian conveniently has one letter for all of "szcz" (approximately).