"I brought my wife lunch."

Translation: Przyniosłem mojej żonie obiad.

[ADJD4]

Can I not say 'przyniosłem żonie obiad'?

[Jellei]

True, logically it's your wife unless you specify it differently, so it should work. Added now.

[GrasKauwer]

In English "the wife" sounds very denigrating to me, is that the same in Polish when you remove "moja"?

[Jellei]

No, it doesn't, omitting 'moja' is easy because you usually bring lunch to your own wife, not someone else's wife. So you basically omit a very obvious part.

[immerweiter]

which is fem and which masc?

[immery]

Przyniosłem - a male speaker

mojej żonie - feminine (dative)

obiad- masculine (accusative)

[immerweiter]

so Przyniosłam means a female speaker has a wife : homosexuelle?

[immery]

yes

[immerweiter]

dziekuje bardzo

[Rafkens]

Lunch powinno mi zaliczyć! W Polsce przecież się tego zwrotu normalnie używa

[immerweiter]

a teraz to nie jest normalne?

[Jellei]

Od niedawna staramy się akceptować, i tutaj akurat jest już akceptowane, więc powinno być zaliczone.

Ale pewnie bezpieczniej odpowiadać "obiad" ;)

[Hot-Doggy]

It's a pity that English words have been introduced into the Polish language using the English spelling. For example, "weekend" should be spelled in Polish as "łikend" and "lunch" as "lancz" or "lanć". So, it would seem, that Polish is no longer a phonetic language. What a pity!

[PolvandenBleek]

co znaczy 'przecież'?

[Jellei]

I don't know a good translation. Hmm... Wiktionary gives a translation "but", but also writes "used to introduce a new, conflicting fact".

So Rafkens claims that it's wrong that his answer was rejected, because the word "lunch" is used in Polish. So the statement that it is used in Polish conflicts with the fact that his answer was rejected as if it wasn't deemed correct.

[Piotr389753]

It's mad I wasn't able to pass the test of my own native language! (And I'm a professional.)