"Kanapka z mięsem"

Translation: A meat sandwich

[conor.raff]

z(e) + instr. = with, together with, along with, accompanied by

[uq.]

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[conor.raff]

dzięki

[lefugitif]

But why wasn't gotuje z moja babcia in instrumental? I couldn't change the e,a,or a on my keyboard.

[Jellei]

"z moją babcią" is exactly Instrumental.

Maybe that specific sentence missed the hint for Instrumental?

[kiddo-depido]

Like с in Russian. Great

[StevenBradshaw46]

Meat sandwich please?

[duolingopl6]

The slow voice sounds like kanapka "zed" mięsem

[sirwootalot]

The letter Z is pronounced "zed" in Polish as well as English, unless you're in the USA, then it's "zee". As a word, you kind of smash it onto the front of whatever noun it's preceding.

[magpie_gir]

I don't know how to confirm what "slow voice" tell.

But in Polish we don't pronounce z as "zed". "Zet" is a name of letter "Z". And is only spoken as zet when is used as an abbreviation, e.g. PZU = pe-zet-u; NFZ = en-ef-zet (but ZUS = zus), Jan Z. = Jan Zet.

I noticed that algorithm on Tinycards on Duolingo ALWAYS read "z" and "w" at the end of the sentense (as Z. = zet and W. = wu). And this is bug, because we don't say "Wracam z" as wracam zet or "pukam w" as pukam wu". Yes there are longer form z = ze and w = we but they are used when there is to many consonants, e.g.

wracam ze szkoły - I'm coming back from school.

wracam z wycieczki - I'm coming back from a trip.

wracam z zabawy - I'm coming from a party.

wracam ze Zbyszkiem - I'm coming back with Zbyszek.

pukam we drzwi - I knock on the door.

pukam w okno - I knock on the window.

mieszkam we Włoszech - I live in Italy.

mieszkam w Warszawie - I live in Warsaw.

PS. Personally I don't know anyone who use names of Polish letters when spelling (maybe in elementary school). People use names :), e.g.

Kwiatkowska:

K jak Kasia

W jak Wiesiek

I jak Irena

A jak Antek

T jak Tomasz

K jak Konrad

O jak Olek

W jak Wacek

S jak Stanisław

K jak Kamil

A jak Ania

PS.2. Before I went to elementary school and I was taught proper names I would say (and I'm still saying :) ):
by, cy, py, zy etc. You must know that we use Polish letters for ~500 years and spoken Polish is at least two times older :). So the names of letters aren't something "natural" :)

[Ash473779]

Does 'z' make what follows instrumental? And would it be okay to miss the z out all together in common speech , for example 'kanapka mięsem' ?

[sailorcire]

This is an.... interesting phrase.

I'd use "a sandwich with meat" instead of "a meat sandwich"

[Jellei]

So would I, because I'm not an English speaker, but apparently, that's just not what they say...

Still, we accept it.

[JerryMcCarthy99]

Sounds a bit like "kanapka zu mięsem". (Male voice; normal speed)