"Ten lek zmniejsza ból."

Translation: This medicine reduces pain.

[one_half_3544]

Hmm. Am I the first one to take this course without cheating by looking up the translations here and, therefore, using my own words?

'this medication relieves the pain' should be accepted, I think. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/relieve - one of the meanings is 'to alleviate', which is (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alleviate) is to 'make less severe, as a pain or difficulty '.

Maybe there are specific words in Polish for those synonyms, but, sadly, wiktionary does not list them.

[Jellei]

This one works as well, just as the other thing you commented recently. I really hope this is just caused just by accidental typos and not some bugs of the system.

[one_half_3544]

User alukasiak had accepted the reported version(s) before you looked at this discussion(s).

[Jellei]

Weird, because the system shows that this sentence was last changed by alukasiak 6 months ago. But okay, the most important thing is that it works.

[one_half_3544]

'this medication lessens pain'?

[Jellei]

Okay, added.

You like to search for less usual translations, right? ;)

[Euhan1]

I think we all like to explore different translations - especially if one has done the exercise before.

[one_half_3544]

I know that it looks weird, but I just type what comes to my mind during the timed practice =)

[Walkinthedog]

I go with medication also, first word I thought of. Looking farther I see you have accepted it. Mea Culpa

[Walkinthedog]

Lowers? Too many ways of saying it.

[Jellei]

Works :)

[Walkinthedog]

Then there is alleviates, no end to it.

[Jellei]

The current answers are: [This/The/That] [medicine/drug/medication/remedy/cure] [decreases/reduces/is decreasing/is reducing/is alleviating/alleviates/relieves/is relieving/is diminishing/diminishes/lowers/is lowering/lessens/is lessening] [the/] pain.

[Walkinthedog]

How about, makes the boo boo feel better, po Polsku , muwily za za

[Jellei]

A bit too much ;) I'm confused by the end of your message, that should have been "mówiły", but I don't know what you meant.

[Walkinthedog]

My mother used to say, fort a hurt when I was a child, ty masz za za. Speking peasant I guess. There are so my words that were endemic to the time and location, my father was from Widelke in Galicja my mother from Jaslany near Krakow I believe. The Brzoza urodzina.

[Sylwek684581]

Sorry what is wrong with : "this medecine reduce the pain" ? Thank you in advance :)

[Jellei]

Plural "reduce" with singular "this medicine" (+ a typo).

[JPHQRO]

Is "pill" a reasonable translation for "lek"?

[alik1989]

A reasonable interpretation, yes, but not a translation. Not all pills are meds, and more importantly, not all meds are pills.