"My bierzemy to dziecko."
Translation:We are taking this child.
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What does this mean? Does it mean "we are taking this child ... to the cinema, to our house, etc?". When reading it, it sounded to me like we selected this child to adopt or something. It sounded peculiar to me.
All of those seem possible, although frankly, without further context... the adoption seems quite probable.
I think it is good that Duo uses unrealistic sentences often, or sentences without context. In my opinion it really makes you think about the grammar yourself rather than simply memorising sentences.
I love how the strange sentences duo comes up with it make studying ridiculous and harder to guess answers based on context.
what function does "to" play here? is it a preposition? as far as i was aware it meant "it" and i don't see how that fits
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I guess the problem is, the sentence is not useful in daily life. Not a familiar sound. We pick up humans, not take. When there is such example it makes hard to understand logic of grammer.
This problem is reinforced with the many applications that "take" could have in English, which "bierzemy" (don't know the infinitive of that one) may not match in 100% of the cases...
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'brać' is the infinitive
When you don't know the nominative/infinitive, type the word form you have here: https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikisłownik:Strona_główna. You will then see some pages, one of which (usually the first) is the one
