"Podczas obiadu pijemy wino."

Translation: During lunch we drink wine.

[kiddo-depido]

You can listen to a podcast podczas you do another thing.

[Gaiajack]

Alternatively: "podczas" breaks into "pod czas", ie, "under the time" or "under the period". Note that "lunch" is in the genitive, so I think this translated literally as "under the time of lunch, we drink wine".

[Veleslav137]

I actually do like listening to podcasts while I do things so this helps.

[uq.]

why is everything genitive

[immery]

obiadu is genitive because podczas needs genitive
wino here is accusative (genitive would be wina), you need accusative after pić

[uq.]

ty

[Ines357762]

How can I learn that?

[Jellei]

Memorization mostly. Especially for what preposition takes what case.

[Nik659150]

Why is podczas genitive ?

[Jellei]

Hmmm... you can treat it as "during the time of", I guess.

[ejbrsb1]

Is there a list somewhere of which prepositions take which cases? There was a list on one of the discussions but it was not comprehensive.

[Jellei]

@alukasiak put together this:

https://www.clozemaster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Most-used-Polish-prepositions.png

[kyle.godon]

This is amazing. Thank you.

[JakubPaczy]

Hmmm, why is "obiad" translated to "lunch"? I'm polish and I'm 100% sure it should be "dinner".

[Jellei]

Skoro jesteś Polakiem, to pewnie jesteś nauczony bardziej brytyjskiej wersji trzech głównych posiłków, a więc breakfast/dinner/supper. Ale to nawet w Wielkiej Brytanii nie jest wcale tak częste jak nam się wydaje. Duolingo używa raczej amerykańskiego angielskiego, a więc trzy główne posiłki to breakfast/lunch/dinner. Wersja brytyjska jest akceptowana.

W ogóle kwestia tych posiłków, jak wyglądają i kiedy są jedzone to sprawa strasznie subiektywna, więc takie tłumaczenia i tak są w sumie uproszczeniem.

[JakubPaczy]

Tez prawda, sczerze powiedziawszy ja sam mialem ta rozmowe z przyjaciolmi ktozy mowili ze u nich w domu jest sniadanie/kolacja/obiad a nie sniadanie/obiad/kolacja.

To dopiero byla dluga dyskusja pomiedzy nami xD

[JohannesRo397749]

I have written "at lunchtime". I would say this should also be allowed.

[Jellei]

'at lunchtime' is just... a time. It doesn't guarantee that you actually eat your lunch then, only that people generally do it at that time. A Polish equivalent is "w porze obiadu". And here you definitely eat lunch and drink wine at the same time.

[MeganKunze1]

And to be on a lunch break at work can be 'być na przerwa/ę/ą'?

[Jellei]

"na przerwie" (Locative)

[MeganKunze1]

Thank you! I have been saying this wrong for a few years now then... (always thinking it was -a or -ę)

[Jellei]

"iść na przerwę" (to go on a break) has -ę. It uses Accusative.

[ejbrsb1]

Thank you.

[Walkinthedog]

Got to work on the spelling.