"Jedna mucha, wiele much"

Translation: One fly, many flies

[eva315836]

"one fly flies, two flies fly"

[Unbedingt]

eine Fliege, viele Fliegen

[C0d3gennN]

Why is it in genitive?

[Jellei]

All quantifiers need Genitive.

[idanlipin]

Besides 1-4, no?

[Jellei]

Well, when I wrote 'quantifiers' I thought about phrases other than numerals. Yeah, 1-4 take Nominative, also every other number that ends with -2, -3, -4 BUT NOT -12, -13, -14 takes Nominative as well.

[Matthew_Phelps]

so ... is this poprawda?

• cztery lata
• siedem lat
• dwanasćie lat
• siedemnaście lat
• dwadzieścia dwa lata
• dwadzieścia pieć lat ... ?

[Jellei]

Yes, those are correct. Two typos though: "dwanaŚCie" and "piĘć" :) There isn't anything like "ći" in Polish.

P.S. "poprawda" sounds like "post-truth" or something like that... ;) "prawda" would be strange as well, because it seems strange to ask "Is this [the truth/true]" here. Not that I have a great idea what would sound natural here... maybe "czy to się zgadza?" or simply "czy to jest poprawne?".

[polec2]

is there a difference between "wiele" and "wielu"?

[Emwue]

As typical for polish plurals, it's a difference between personal and not-personal:

• Wielu ludzi, mężczyzn, polityków
• Wiele osób, kobiet, polityczek

[Walkinthedog]

Thanks for your reply, there is no such thing as a stupid question when we learn from the answers.

[Walkinthedog]

Many is also a good word for a lot, means the same, one fly, many flies

[Jellei]

"many" is the main answer that I see :)

[Walkinthedog]

As an addendum to this, my parents always used the term " muchy " for flies, was this correct?

[Jellei]

Yes. "much" is Genitive because "wiele" takes Genitive. But the Nominative plural is "muchy".

[tczek]

Can you use dużo instead of wiele?

[Kristine466318]

Yes, you can.

[Frederic606350]

Can we say several instead of many ?

[Kristine466318]

I think so.

[Jellei]

"several" seems to be more like "kilka" or "parę", I believe.

[Kristine466318]

I would argue this point. Kilka is "a few", parę is "a couple", several is more than that (in my opinion).

[Jellei]

I guess such things are subjective, but for example Wikisłownik or dict.pl translate "several" as "kilka".