"I am an aunt!"
Translation:Jestem ciocią!
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Here again... Why is this instrumental? Is this regular with 'być'? Or describing what you are? (jestem holenderką ?)
to identify (to name): TO (jest) (kto? co?) ciocia - Mianownik (Nominative)
to define: JESTEM (kim? czym?) ciocią - Narzędnik (Instrumental)
"Wujka" is accusative/genitive, but here you would need the instrumental case.
Why is it not "jestem ciotką"? According to wiki declension instrumental this would be correct...? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ciotka
"Jestem ciotką" is actually an accepted answer; I just tested it.
I don't understand the ending of ciotka here. It does not seem to follow the usual pattern?
It would be "ciotką" rather than "ciotka". It's seems fairly standard to me, as a feminine instrumental form. (Instrumental after "jestem").
The word ciotka, not ciocia, appears under Google Translate both under "aunt" and "I am an aunt". Can you confirm ciotka is an alternative word, both in the nominative and instrumental, please? (I entered ciotka and was not marked wrong.) Thanks.
Well, yes and no. The Nominative is "ciotka"; the Instrumental, which is required here, is "ciotką". I guess you got lucky if you entered "ciotka" and didn't get some error/warning message about "paying attention to the accents".
Wiktionary at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ciotka#Declension gives the full declension.
I will just add that "ciotka" is a more formal word and to me it sounds a bit as if I didn't like the aunt that I refer to by using "ciotka". But that's subjective of course.
Yes. I think you mean as in English where we have the word aunt in the dictionary but a more informal , conversational word is "auntie." Interestingly this other word, ciocia, in pronunciation sounds more like Chinese than Polish, as a previous correspondent commented.
I may have had an accents warning. I can't remember because , to be honest, I take no notice of them. As I see it, these are for purist linguists only and not for those owners of English keyboards who daren't alter the keys (The letter l with a line through its middle (whatever its name is) for w is a slight nuisance but thankfully entering a mere l on the keyboard appears to be acceptable to your system).
"Zrób mi łaskę" (ł with a stroke) means "Do me a favour". "Zrób mi laskę" (l without stroke) means "Blow me."
I'm pretty sure that not only "purist linguists" appreciate the difference.
Special characters make completely different sounds, so to answer your comment... the answer is "no".