"Ty i ja sprzedajemy duże kanapki."
Translation:You and I are selling big sandwiches.
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Why not say 'my sprzedajemy' or simply 'sprzedajemy'? Is there a reason you would say 'ty i ja'?
Just a choice to put two pronouns in the same sentence for teaching reasons. In real speech it probably sounds similarly to the English equivalent - possible, but "my" is more probable.
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This unit is so hard. 21 new verbs to learn. I'm a teacher and I can't imagine springing so many new verbs on my students at one time.
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Does Polish behave like English where you are always supposed to reference yourself last?
For example, in English it is correct to say "Steve and I are going to the store" and not "Me and Steve are going to the store"
I've never encountered such a rule in Polish. We may consider that "Ty i ja" is somehow more polite, but I don't believe any linguist would consider "Ja i ty" wrong.
That "sprzedajemy" is a doozy; one of yins mind laying out the pronunciation for it. Where I come from, there should be at least two vowels in that jumble of consonants.
Well, maybe that's still a lot, but while you see four consonants, those are three sounds. "rz" is one sound in almost any word, reading them separately is very rare.
could ? You & I we are selling big Sandwiches ? Because thats how i read it.
"duże" is a form of the adjective "duży" (big, large).
For "many", "much", "lots of" and "a lots of", you need the adverb/quantifier "dużo". It takes Genitive, so it would be "... dużo kanapek".
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So how would we say "we are selling many large sandwiches" - Ty i ja sprzedajemy dużo duży kanapek? Or kanapki?
"dużo dużych kanapek" or "wiele dużych kapanek".
The quantifiers "dużo"/"wiele" need the noun case to take Genitive case.