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My greatest problems ate twofold, understanding what the voice says, hard of hearing 1500 hertz range and sloppy typing. Self taught when I got my first computer at 68.
- 899
Surely this is the same as "Who did she help".....but this answer tells me I am incorrect.
No, it's not. The sentence is kinda strange, but in it's strangness it indeed means "who WOULD she help". Conditional. There's nothing about her helping anyone in the past.
- 150
The hint also has "has helped", what in the sentence let's you know that it's WOULD?
If you hover over 'by', you see "by pomogła" = "(she) would help".
The conditional is built upon the past tense form.
As far as I know, it could be both, depending on the context.
Anyway, such contractions are accepted automatically by the algorithm, "Who'd" is not specifically put among the accepted answers.
- 102
OK. I'll accept that. I have a question about the word for chicken since I was raised on a farm by Polish parents and we raised chickens by the hundreds. My mother always used the term kura for chicken and kogut for rooster, was that correct
Kogut - yes.
Kura... well, kura is a hen. Although if we treat "chicken" more scientifically, as a species, then true, it translates to "kura domowa". But normally rooster = kogut, hen = kura, chicken = kurczak.
- 102
A take on the word fowl? Rather than denoting the individual species of fowl. Along with that there was another word I wondered about, Rabbit, Krolik, we also raised them during meat rationong day of WW2 but they were referred to as zajac. Would that be a rabbit or a hare.
Królik is a rabbit, zając is a hare. The question is whether people actually distinguish them instead of just calling both rabbits ;)
"fowl", as a noun for all kinds of birds one can raise in the countryside, is "drób". Just as the word for the meat of those birds.
- 102
Thanks for clearing that up, you can see why I am confused, my polish language training was not too good. Hadn't spoken it in about sixty years therefore I had a lot confusion in what is or isn't correct. Thanks for clearing this up for me.
- 102
What do I need the abbreviation for? Who did she help is the same as who.
You mean "who'd"? In this case that's a contraction of "who would", not "who did". It probably shouldn't really be accepted here, but accepting contractions is done automatically and we can't change it.
