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- "Your people are bad."
"Your people are bad."
Translation:Wasi ludzie są źli.
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'Ludzie' is a masculine personal plural noun, so it requires a masculine personal plural pronoun, which is 'twoi'.
Twoje can be either neuter singular or non-masculine-personal plural (nonvirile).
Is ludzie masculine-personal even if there are no men in that group? (I know we could just use kobiety but it could be mixture of young kids, and women etc)
Would ludzie still be masculine-personal?
Yes. The grammatical gender of the noun itself is 'masculine personal' (aka. 'virile'), so there is no possibility of treating it any other way.
You can use this word to refer to a group of women and/or children; I wouldn't say that it's wrong, just lexically imprecise, because you could have easily said 'kobiety', 'dzieci' or 'kobiety i dzieci'.
Btw, when referring to a mixed group that does not include men (woman & child / woman & dog / dog & child, etc.) the masculine personal gender is often used.
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/33340187?comment_id=41711342
Since ‘ludzie’ is masculine personal plural, why isn’t the adjective ‘złymi’ (that’s my possibly incorrect attempt at the masculine personal plural instrumental suffix)?
Actually, the case is wrong. If the subject complement is just an adjective without a noun, it will take the nominative case.
Why would you use a word that has not been introduced yet into the course?
Treating "your people" as "your nation"? Well... I guess you can. Added.
