"Ten projekt to dla niej duży stres."
Translation:This project is very stressful for her.
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How about "This project is a great source of stress for her", translating "stres" as "source of stress" (and "duży" as "great")?
Well... but we can easily translate your English sentence literally, so it's "Ten projekt jest dla niej źródłem wielkiego stresu".
I see that this sentence has the EN -> PL translations blocked, probably because it translates a Polish noun into an English adjective and we don't teach "stresujący". But sure, your answer would be perfectly correct, if there was anywhere to put it ;)
This is one of those strange differences in English and Polish sentence contruction...
The literal translation seems to be "This project is a big stress for her" which actually works perfectly fine in English, and retains stress as a noun instead of translating it into an adjective
Could you also translate "This project is very stressful [for/to] her" as either Ten projekt jest dla niej bardzo stresowy" or even use dative case and say "Ten projekt jest jej bardzo stresowy"
No, I don't think this adjective works in the Polish sentence, and the Dative construction is a rather unusual one, it may work sometimes, but that probably will sound dated (see? Dative, dated, hehe).
Perhaps "stresogenny" could work, I can see that English has a similar word: "stressogenic". And "stresujący" for sure.
So "stres" is a noun rather than an adjective here, correct? Otherwise we wouldn't be able to use "to" in it (unless I'm getting that rule wrong)?
And it follows if we were to change the sentence to use "jest" then "stres" becomes "stresem" I imagine.
Yes, "stres" is a noun. "stresujący" is an adjective (Ten projekt jest dla niej bardzo stresujący). The sentence with an adjective is a closer equivalent of the English sentence of course, but the source sentence here is Polish, and I guess it's not easy to translate "duży stres" naturally into English.
Yes, you got the rule right, and yes, "jest dla niej dużym stresem" would also be correct.