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"Cała moja rodzina potrzebuje lodówki."
Translation:My entire family needs a refrigerator.
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Do adjectives always go before pronouns in Polish or is this a special case? Coming from other languages, I would have expected it to be "Moja cała rodzina".
I was marked incorrect for "All my family need a fridge" the word need does not have to be pluralised in English, so I believe the question was answered correctly.
Sounds very unnatural. I'm not sure if it's grammatically wrong but "all my family" sounds weird.
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Can we use here "Whole" for Cała? One of the suggested word is "All" for CAŁA. With all it sound like ... not very well. All my family ? I would say My whole family - not accepted.
"My whole family" is among the accepted answers, its hould have worked.
"All my family" is something more idiomatic than literal.
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My whole family needs a new fridge - has not been accepted. Where is my mistake? Thanks for help!
Weird sentence. The word entire/ whole implies an extended family of some sort. Yet only a single refrigerator is needed. For single household families I don't think you would stress the 'whole' family. Just 'My family needs a fridge. '
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Why? Someone above here asked about the word order, but I didn't see a reply thereto. Is it typical to place the adjective before the possessive, such that "czarny mój pies" would be normal while "mój czarny pies" would be acceptable but atypical? Thanks.
"czarny mój pies" would sound like from a poem (probably one for children, given the topic).
As for "cała moja rodzina"... I feel that I'd put it like that because this is "my family" and also it's "whole", rather than "whole family" which is also "my". That's my feel, I can understand if someone won't agree with that and we do accept both versions.
I guess it's not only mine feel though given the fact that it wasn't me who wrote this sentence ;)
How would anyone glean that the sentence was talking about a single refrigerator? I thought that "lodówki" was the plural of "lodówka."
Potrzebować always takes the genitive case, and the genitive plural of lodówka would be lodówek.
I see a totally normal "refrigerator" here, was a version with a typo suggested as another correct version for you?
Wow, you're right. The basic version (My entire family needs a...) has "refrigerator", but some other possible answers had "refrigetador". Fixed now, thanks for noticing.
Yes, I am English and did not pluralise the 'need'. However, I was marked 'wrong'. Hey ho...
