Topic: Polish

"Koty mają dziewięć żyć."

Translation:Cats have nine lives.

January 25, 2016

15 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/alik1989
Mod

    Nice! Next time I'm getting a Polish cat

    April 1, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/DankaEagle

      the czech cats have also nine lives ;)

      April 13, 2016
      https://www.duolingo.com/Maksym626803
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      The Ukrainian cats have the same.

      February 22, 2018
      https://www.duolingo.com/TwinTip
      • 775

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

      August 4, 2016
      https://www.duolingo.com/israellai

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

        January 25, 2016
        https://www.duolingo.com/PonyDesu

          Yup, Polish cats have two lives more.

          January 25, 2016
          https://www.duolingo.com/Tilo_K
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          I asked my Polish friend and she said their cats have only 7 like the German. Maybe it depends on the region within Poland.

          May 29, 2018
          https://www.duolingo.com/Craig971384
          • 118

          Chinese cats also have nine lives.

          February 24, 2018
          https://www.duolingo.com/Zenobiusz42

            We've got awesome cats

            October 26, 2016
            https://www.duolingo.com/amazingkurwa

              ukrainian cats also have nine lives. )

              April 2, 2017
              https://www.duolingo.com/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?

                December 7, 2018
                https://www.duolingo.com/Tilo_K
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                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.

                December 7, 2018
                https://www.duolingo.com/Mudkip20

                  Dziękuję bardzo! Nie widziałam tego potem!

                  December 7, 2018
                  https://www.duolingo.com/RichardWelzel
                  • 47

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

                  April 9, 2019
                  https://www.duolingo.com/alik1989
                  Mod

                    It's genitive plural.

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

                    April 9, 2019

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