"O czym śpiewasz?"
Translation:What are you singing about?
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I still have the feeling that it gave us Germans a bad rap, as if we were all incapable of properly pronouncing our sister language. :'D
I think it's widely known that Germans usually speak very good English ;)
I really hope so. ;-) The only person I know who speaks like the man in the ad is my mother, but she never enjoyed advanced education in the Enlgish language and never needed any knowledge of the language. All the others I know have more detailed issues concerning pronunciation. :D
As a native English speaker, when ever i have a grammatical question about my own language it is usually best to get help from a German person... Their English is always excellent and they are obviously taught grammar much better than I was.
Can someone explain the reason for the difference in case used with the preposition, "o".
"O co prosisz?" "O czym śpiewasz?"
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The main meaning of "o" is "about", and then you use Locative: "O czym śpiewasz?"
There are other meanings which use Accusative, and at least some of them could be translated as "for", like "What are you asking for?" = "O co prosisz?"
Those are very similar, but actually unrelated, words.
"czym" is the Instrumental and Locative form of "co", meaning "what".
"czyim" it the Instrumental and Locative form that works for masculine and neuter nouns, of the word "czyj", meaning "whose". E.g. "Z czyim synem rozmawiasz?" = "Whose son are you talking with?".