"Koty mają dziewięć żyć."

Translation: Cats have nine lives.

[alik1989]

Nice! Next time I'm getting a Polish cat

[israellai]

Do Poles say this? I'm asking because I've heard German cats apparently have seven instead. (How brutal.)

[PonyDesu]

Yup, Polish cats have two lives more.

[Tilo_K]

I asked my Polish friend and she said their cats have only 7 like the German. Maybe it depends on the region within Poland.

[DankaEagle]

the czech cats have also nine lives ;)

[Maksym626803]

The Ukrainian cats have the same.

[janezg]

In all ex-Yugoslavian countries 9 as well haha

[TwinTip]

I wrote "cats have nein lives"
German is messing me up here

[Craig971384]

Chinese cats also have nine lives.

[amazingkurwa]

ukrainian cats also have nine lives. )

[Zenobiusz42]

We've got awesome cats

[chce_polski]

"If that cat had nine lives, she just used 'em all!" - Cousin Eddie on Christmas Vacation

[Mudkip20]

On wiktionary it says that "życie" doesn't have a plural form, and when I search for żyć, it only gives the verb. Anybody has a declension table/explanation?

[Tilo_K]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/życie
and
https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/życie
also give plural forms, but it depends on the concept of the term. You can consider the life of a person being singular only, but think of concepts like reincarnation or the lives of a computer game character.

[Mudkip20]

Dziękuję bardzo! Nie widziałam tego potem!

[RichardWelzel]

How can this be correct? Why "żyć" and not "życia"?

[alik1989]

It's genitive plural.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C5%BCycie#Declension