"Czasem zapominamy o obiedzie."
Translation:We sometimes forget about lunch.
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No difference. Look: http://sjp.pwn.pl/szukaj/czasami.html it is very good and free polish dictionary.
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It is quite often that in locative you have to change vowel a -> e (obiad - obiedzie, sąsiad - sąsiedzie, las - lesie, świat - świecie)
"Po" in the meaning of "after" takes Locative. Maybe someone could explain why a changes into e, I don't really know such rules, I just know that it's the right form (declension here).
You mean locative, right? Not instrumental? "o obiadzie" is not instrumental, right?
You're right, thanks for correcting - edited my comment.
But it's 'obiEdzie' :)
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For "about", yes. But "o" also has other meanings, which take non-locative. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/o#Polish
3 years later, I am told by native speakers that it's not a good word order that should be accepted - removed now.
I put "at times", which was marked wrong. This should probably be accepted, right?
Our native contributors agreed on accepting "At times, we forget..." as an alternative answer.
The acoustics on this sentence are terrible, even after I saw the answer, I could not understand the word zapominaja
"Zapominamy obiad" would work as well? Or does it always come with o Thxs
Apart maybe from some collocations, I'd say those two are perfectly interchangeable. Both are accepted here.
So the tile puzzle question offered the word 'our' in there. I feel like 'we sometimes forget about our lunch' should be accepted as an implied possessive pronoun. Any reason not?
Only that no one reported it before. And that it didn't occur to us as well because "o naszym obiedzie" would feel very strange in Polish... about whose lunch are you supposed to forget? ;)
But sure, it makes sense in English. Added now.
Apparently the typo on "sometimes" was too much for the grading algorithm.
Powiedzieć "we are forgetting" to tak jakby stwierdzić, że właśnie w tej chwili zapominamy. Co samo w sobie jest mało prawdopodobne, a poza tym kłóci się z "sometimes".
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In Cooljugator it has "zapomnimy" as the form for present 1st person plural of "to forget". Is this a different verb?
That's a different verb, that's perfective "zapomnieć", and "zapomnimy" is Future Simple: "we will forget".
"zapominamy" is from imperfective "zapominać", so "zapominamy" means "we are forgetting/we forget". It's not a verb that you often use in the Present Tense, but sometimes we do say "Oh yeah, I always forget that!" and similar things.