"This child speaks English."

Translation: To dziecko mówi po angielsku.

[SKocieda]

Why isn't it "te dziecko...."?

[immery]

because it is only one child. "to" - is "this" for singular nominative neuter words.

this boy- ten chłopiec
this girl- ta dziewczynka
this child- to dziecko
te dzieci, te dziewczynki- these children, these girls
ci chłopcy- these boys.

[merilingo0]

nice to find this similarity with Russian!! To speak "English" would be in Russian " по английски "
( по - po here) ( and in the second place it is put the language in question)

[Raynefalle]

Okay, so I put "To dziecko po angielku" which I realise now is wrong because I forgot 'mówi', but it corrects me to "To dziecko zna angielski".
Why? What would make this different to "To dziecko mówi po angielku"?

[Jellei]

Typo, it's "angielsku" :)

Seems that the algorithm considered this answer closer to yours - why, who knows. Anyway, that's literally "This child knows English", which we considered close enough and popular enough to accept.

[OldManSteve]

Can you tell me why it's mówi not mówię. What word am. I supposed to be looking at to tell me what form of to speak should I use. I thought the child would indicate the form to use (and maybe just got it wrong anyway)

[alik1989]

Mówię is first person singular (I), whereas mówi is third person singular (he, she, it).

[Boss-10]

Please what is the difference between to, ten, ta, ci, te

[Jellei]

They are all Nominative forms of the word "ten" (this), but for different genders:

ten (masculine), ta (feminine), to (neuter), ci (virile), te (nonvirile).

Read more here: https://www.clozemaster.com/blog/polish-demonstrative-pronouns/

[Boss-10]

Dziekuje