"Mój bogaty wujek kupuje mały samolot."
Translation:My rich uncle is buying a small airplane.
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Why can't an airplane be little? There is even a company, Little Airplane Productions.
"Little" has been added sometime in the last three years :-) .
Too specific. Sure, it may be the most probable nowadays, but maybe he's buying an old plane from a museum that isn't even supposed to fly ;)
"jet" is "odrzutowiec" (or "samolot odrzutowy")
Why are "plane" and "aeroplane" not possible answers? For a native english speaker, "airplane" is unusual.
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What's wrong in answer: "my rich uncle buys a small plane"? Because it was not accepted.
Using "buys" like that implies that he buys a lot of small planes, as in "My uncle buys a small plane every week". But here, there is no adverb suggesting repetition, so "is buying" is the most appropriate answer.
We actually accept it, because it's 'technically a correct translation', but sure, it's an unusual one. Still, it should have worked.
In America, "my rich uncle" is slang for the US government. ("Uncle" being "Uncle Sam.")
I'd say that "aircraft" would be too general. That term could include a helicopter, which is a different word in Polish.
True, an aircraft would be a statek powietrzny... I just learned something. Thank you for the clarification!