"Chłopiec ma jabłko."
Translation:A boy has an apple.
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Great. Getting rid of something just to reinvent it 300 years later :D
We hate, when you compare Polish to Ukrainian. When you are from Poland, you see the differences.
Polish and Spanish are even further apart, but they still share a lot of common features that both languages inherited from Proto-Indo-European. Would you also hate it if I compared Polish and Spanish?
You should use mam only when you want to say I have ( ja mam). ,,Ma" you should use with 3rd person (he, she, it - on, ona, ono/to), for example She has got - ona ma. So mam is like English have, but used only with the 1st person (I- ja) and ma is like has used in 3 rd person. Remember- i explained only about singular, not plural.
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Mieć infinitive
Mam I have
Masz you have
On/ona/ono ma he/she/it has
Mamy we have
Macie you (plural) have
Mają they have
I am confusing about ma and mam. Can someone explains when should I use ma or mam?
Anybody have any suggestions as to where I could find verb conjugation tables? Online preferably
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Polish has noun cases. When the noun is the subject, it uses the nominative case.
Chłopiec ma jabłko.
When the noun follows the verb "to be" (am/is/are), it uses the instrumental case.
Aktor jest chłopcem. = The actor is a boy.
On your questions, you should say why each question is wrong. If it is wrong how are we supposed to improve on our answers with no explanation?
I think we're supposed to come to the comment section so that a professional can answer your questions rather than a computer, but I definitely see your frustration.
What is "the boy" if chłopiec is "a boy" please? And why are there so many words for boy?
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I know there are no articles in Polish, but does anyone else feel like the suggested translation should be "The boy is eating the/an apple" rather than "A boy is eating an apple", because the sentence presupposes a specific boy and possibly a specific apple? Obviously grammatically either is right, but I am just struggling to think of a context where "a boy" would work. I just feel that although the Slavic languages don't have articles, that doesn't mean anything goes when translating into English, and that would only be possible if there were some articles presumed within the other languages. (I'm a Russian-English bilingual speaker, so bringing those biases along.)
Maybe if you're asked to describe a picture? "A boy is eating an apple while sitting on a park bench. In the background, a girl is playing with a balloon".
But I agree that this particular sentence "A boy has an apple" is weird. We will try to avoid such translations in future course updates.