"Życie to nie tylko radość."

Translation: Life is not just joy.

[Tom873317]

No kidding... the first four emotions so far have been fear, anger, shame, and sorrow. And of course now happiness is introduced in the negative

[Jellei]

Well, complaining is said to be our national sport for a reason.

[va-diim]

Russian: Żyzń eto nie tol'ko radost'. This category of emotions and feelings is so similar to Russian, I would almost go as far as mutual intelligibility! Almost.

[immerweiter]

life is not only pleasure

[Jellei]

pleasure = przyjemność

[GrzegorzLi19]

"life is not only a joy" why is this incorrect?

[Jellei]

In such a general statement, I don't think you can talk about "a joy" (jedna radość, jakaś radość?)

[GrzegorzLi19]

Ok, i understand now

[conor.raff]

the audio makes the first word sound more like "życię" or "życiem"

[Vengir]

I don't hear anything extraordinary, but maybe that's just because I'm a native.

[ijbrito]

I disagree

[Mikoaj936886]

What's wrong with "life's" instead of "life is"?

[FredrickSc13]

"Joy is not the only thing in life"?

[va-diim]

The meaning is similar, but the translation is wrong. There is no "thing" in the Polish sentence. Yours would translate as Radość nie jest jedyną rzeczą w życiu.

[SamNeve]

While this may make sense in Polish, the English tran

[Jellei]

We discussed it with a native speaker and while we agree that the English sentence could be better as "not just about happiness" (we added that answer to the list of accepted ones), we are not sure if the English is that odd. We only saw one other complaint about the English sentence so far.