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"We are listening to that cat."
Translation:My słuchamy tamtego kota.
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Hi, I thought tamta Kota for that Cat .When do you use tamta rather than tam tego.
"tamta" is feminine, and the basic word for "cat" (kot) is masculine.
"słuchać" (to listen to) takes Genitive, Genitive for "tamten kot" (that cat) is "tamtego kota".
You dont need the "to" ("do") in this sentence when translated to Polish?
Not only you don't need it, using it would deprive the sentence of any sense. In Polish you 'listen something/someone', not 'listen to'. Just like you hear something and not 'to something' (in Polish as well).
And this something/someone is in Genitive.
"kotki" (from "kotka") is a female cat. It's on the list of accepted answers, although it isn't taught.
Duolingo usually doesn't seem to care about the difference between 'this' and 'that', but in this case, 'my słuchamy tego kota' was not accepted.
It's not that we don't care about the difference (for example, the main answer should always correspond exactly, this=ten and that=tamten), but the way those work in English and in Polish are just different. Yeah, 'tego' should have worked, added.
From what we learned prior to this, shouldn't: "My tamtego kota słuchamy" be accepted too?
Sorry, but no. It has to be "My słuchamy tamtego kota", your sentence sounds really funny, very much not in Polish.
I'd say that putting słuchamy at the end makes it sound like "We're obedient to that cat". Wouldn't you agree?
Albo po prostu kiedy Twój kot siedzi obok i mruczy, a Ty go uważnie słuchasz... niby czemu nie? Wiele osób lubi ten dźwięk.
