"To zwierzę jest stare."

Translation:This animal is old.

January 26, 2016

10 Comments

Very sad sentences in this exercise. :-(

February 4, 2016

Why isn't "stare" in the instrumental here? Is that only for nouns after być?

January 26, 2016

Yes, instrumental is used with nouns and adjectives accompanying them.

January 26, 2016

I cant hear the difference between stare and stary :')

May 31, 2018

Mod

Not sure if that's helpful, but you're not the only one. Apparently those are very similar sounds for the learners, at least in the beginning.

Personally I never considered them similar before I started dealing with Duolingo... but well, such things are obvious to the native ear.

May 31, 2018

zwierzę...i can hear a slight difference with "e" of stare...but "ę" should not have a "n" sound in the end?

June 5, 2018

Mod

Not really. It's just nasalized "e". For some people it is helpful to approximate it to 'en', but that's really too much.

And in fact if ę is the final sound of the word, it sounds almost the same (or exactly the same) as the normal e.

June 5, 2018

so the "n" sound is just for ę in the middle of a word?

June 5, 2018

Mod

I still wouldn't say it's an 'n' sound, but yeah, in the middle.

June 5, 2018

Mah heart, mah soul.. :(

May 25, 2018