"On został wychowany przez swoją babcię."
Translation:He was raised by his grandma.
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Clearly an oversight, as 'brought up' was accepted in other sentences with 'wychowany'. Added.
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Hi Jellei, I have just finished the Polish Tree - Thanks for all your help (& also immery). I had so much fun, and have begun to remember some of my polish. I look forward to visiting the site often.
Couldn´t it be: "He was raised by his own grandma?" "own" would emphasize the reflexivity of the pronoun "swoja".
We have an equivalent of 'own', and it's "własny" (and its forms), so while 'own' may be accepted somewhere, I think that generally there's no need to accept it. It adds a word.
You could say "przez swoją własną babcię", it would be correct, but of course 'własną' is more redundant than in English, as 'swoją' already says that it's his own and not some other guy's.
We could say "brought up by..." in English, but I don't think its what the exercise is looking for.
Once again, raised is American English. In the UK, Ireland, Australia, India and South Africa we say 'brought up.'
In ireland we say reared. It's probably tge most commonly used term
That's accepted, but it's an unlikely situation. Using "jego" effectively means that it was someone else's grandma, as in "John was raised by George's grandma".
It was rejected, but I now understand why. Thank you. Could you just leave out the possessive and render it "On został wychowany przez babcię", like duolingo translates "dzieci zadzwoniły ciocię" in an exercise as, "the children phoned their auntie"? Thanks again for the feedback.
If it was rejected, then either you made some mistake (even a typo), or there's some possibility there's a bug. But again, that's an unlikely interpretation of the English sentence, even if it's technically correct.
Yes, you can omit the possessive. Even in English, "grandma" is one of the few nouns that can sometimes go without a possessive. It's just the most likely option that his own grandma raised him.
But in Polish, when you call/phone someone, you need "do", that sentence must have been "dzieci zadzwoniły do cioci".
Thanks again! I realised the missing "do" about an hour ago and decided not to edit the comment. ;o))