"Tamte skarpety są stare."
Translation:Those socks are old.
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The adjective has to match the noun it describes. "Skarpety" are 'not masculine-personal' plural. So the right form of the adjective is the same as for neuter singular: "stare".
"stary" is masculine singular.
It's hard to learn Polish with a Russian background. "СтарЫЕ" ) It has both "y" and "e".
As my small knowledge about Polish, it's because it's a adjective in plural. Many of them end in "e" when is plural. Don't know the rule, just keep it in mind, it will help a lot to know adjective in plural.
I thought it was "these socks are old" and not "those socks are old" but is there that much of a difference between the two?
The problem is that English and Polish look at determiners quite differently. Polish uses "te/te/tamte" (and its forms) while English uses "these/those/those". That means that "those" is a lot more common than Polish "tamte". Therefore if the Polish sentence did use "tamte", it really is "those ones over there" and only "those" can be accepted.
I got the suggestion "The socks". Shouldn't it only be "those socks"?