"Rolnik pracuje na farmie."

Translation: The farmer works on the farm.

[laurahya]

I learned "gospodarstwo" for "farm" rather than "farma". Is there a difference?

[immery]

according to the dictionary "farma" is
- a farm in English speaking country
- a farm specialized in some kind of products

"ferma"
-a farm that is specialized in animals

Gospodarstwo
- a country estate including ground and buildings, also also a unit of agricultural production
- household things
- all the home and family matters

gospodarstwo domowe:
- all of activities and things with running a home

gospodarstwo rolne
- agricultural production unit

from http://sjp.pwn.pl/szukaj/gospodarstwo.html, translation mine.

[IvesAB]

So, if you are just talking about some generic or unknown farm (you don't know if they raise animals, for example), which one would you use?

[Jellei]

"gospodarstwo" seems most probable to me.

[IvesAB]

Thank you

[RadhaTereska]

I agree. "Farma" sounds very "Pol-english"

[Ollyfer]

The same I thought about plaża, only with the French language.

[hbh673680]

Doesnt the english 'works on the farm' means that he s maybe fixing up the building itself or something ?
While more farm-specific activities (doing the hay, feeding the animals etc) would be 'work at the farm' ?
I might be wrong, that s why i m asking, in order to understand what the polish sentence actually means.
Thanks !

[GP62HE]

'On the farm' is the normal way to talk about working or living there.

[Henry300549]

Farmie and not Farme because?

[alik1989]

-ie is the most common locative ending.

[Raf719108]

Farm is not a Polish word and it's not used in Poland. It's gospodarstwo or rola. You won't find a farm in polish dictionary.

[alik1989]

Very true, but the word used in this sentence is actually farma.