"Jego siostra ma nożyczki."
Translation:His sister has the scissors.
July 30, 2016
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Are nożyczki masculine or feminine?
Are they the plural of a hypothetical *nożyczka or of *nożyczek?
Would I say Nie mam nożyczek or Nie mam nożyczków?
Does Polish have special numbers for counting such pluralia tanta, like Slovak jedny nožnice, dwoje nožníc, troje nožníc, štvoro nožníc "one, two, three, four pairs of scissors"?
You'd say "Nie mam nożyczek". Hypothetically... well, this proves that hypothetically they could be feminine, I've never thought about it.
Yes, we do have collective numerals. jedne nożyczki, dwoje nożyczek, troje nożyczek, czworo nożyczek... but this sounds very weird, 'dwie pary nożyczek' (two pairs of scissors) feels a lot more natural to me. Although obviously 'dwoje nożyczek' is perfectly correct.