"Ktoś ma dziś urodziny!"
Translation:Someone has a birthday today!
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Don't we usually say, "it's someone's birthday today"? Someone has birthday sounds strange to me
Niestety nie. "birthday" to jednak po prostu rzeczownik w liczbie pojedynczej (nie tak jak w polskim) i potrzebuje czegoś przed. Natomiast zmienimy główne tłumaczenie na prostsze "a" zamiast "their".
Yes, English is a crazy language, isn't it? We often use "their" instead of "his or her", and "they / them" instead of "he / she / him / her".
It's a non-specific pronoun. Someone is singular/ambiguous because we don't have information on their gender. So, unless you know that the "someone" is a boy or girl you would use "their" in the place of his/her
The audio on full speed sounds correct.
The audio on slow seems to drop the "u" sound on urodziny, making it sound more like family than birthday.
Could be my ancient ears of course.
It's the object, but it's also plural non-masculine-personal, so it stays the same.
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It would sound more natural to say "It's someone's birthday, today!", at least to me. I do appreciate that it's written in a closer approximation to the Polish construction, so thank you!
Yes, that's probably more natural, but also that's "Dziś są czyjeś urodziny!" which can be said to express the same thought.
The English sentence is already accepted, I added the Polish one.