"Czterdzieści, pięćdziesiąt, sześćdziesiąt"
Translation:Forty, fifty, sixty
April 9, 2016
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Mark_B420
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Is there a logical reason why 40 ends with dzieści, while all the higher multiples of ten have dziesiąt?
dziesięć, dwadzieścia, trzydzieści, czterdzieści, ... then the logic starts. The logic being five tens (pięć x dziesięć = pięćdziesiąt). I am no expert in languages let alone in polish, but as often is the case sound often decides. The first few would just sound odd and strange with "dziesiąt" as an ending.
FrozenTundraFoxy
1869
Possibly in relation to Russian or Ukrainian. Тридацят, сорок, пятдацят. 30, 40, 50. Forty is a unique #.
JanKLinde
1061
I think the typo option is only provided for writing in Polish in this course. Every wrong letter in an English sentence makes the whole sentence incorrect. This seems to be part of the Duolingo algorithm.