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- "Jestem u babci."
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Only if you're into incest. Or if your grandma ate you. Both options are rather a bit too sick to think of.
Yeah, that would mean that you are literally inside your grandma. But the form "babci" would stay, that's true ;)
Well, you could say "Jestem w domu/mieszkaniu babci" (I am in grandma's house/apartment).
No, that would be totally confusing... true, 'na' is often used with open spaces, but it's a very general rule and it's just dependent on the exact noun.
This sentence always sounds weird to me as a Serbian speaker, since "u babci" would literally mean "in grandma" in Serbian. :D
This entire thread's making me anxious... but to be sure, you could add "house" to this sentence and use "w", correct?
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you've been accepting 'granny' for 'babcia' so far, so can't we have 'I am at granny's'?
I'm pretty sure it is correct, because it is possessive: I am at grandmother's (house). The house (or room, flat, apartment, simply: place) is implied.
Spanish speaker here, I was expecting for a complement to know grandma's "what", since its impossible to leave a owner/posseser without a thing to posses, I already see it could mean the owned or leased priopiety. But please let me know: is this an usual saying in polish? Tbh I barely heard this in english until today.
It's something like "Estoy en lo de la Abuela." The same gramatical form as the movie "Weekend at Bernie's".
Yes, that's completely normal, it feels a lot more natural to me than saying "Jestem w domu babci" (I am at/in grandma's house).
Oops its "I am at Grandma's." My mystake. I wish i could erase my comment
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There should be the word 'my' in this sentence, as "I am at grandmother's" doesn't make any sense. It should be: "I am at my grandmother's".
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Or, the word 'the' should be written, so, "I'm at the grandmother's". Now, that does sound pretty negative but would also make sense
OK, true, but I believe that it would be fine with "at grandma's". I mean, English usually needs the possessive, but "grandma" would be among few exceptions for family members so close that it's used like that, especially that the word itself is less formal than "grandmother".
So far I'm changing the main translation to "at grandma's".
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What about 'grandmother's' as it says it's not correct when grandmother should be accepted
Well, you just don't say that in English. "I am at grandmother's", with the Saxon genitive: 's -this implies being at her house.
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Unfortunately it's not accepting "at grandmother's" either (3/6/20), only "at grandma's". I have reported it.
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What you would really say is 'I am at grannie's ' . Grandmother is too formal for this construction. ..
