"Mam tylko jedno jabłko."
Translation:I have only one apple.
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It's not technically wrong, but it's rarely used, at least in the U.S., to say "I've" for "I have" when implying possession.
Whether "I've" is correct here or not, it actually is always accepted simply because Duolingo accepts this contraction automatically. So yeah, it should have worked.
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There's one question I've been carrying with me since the beginning of this course: What is the correct pronunciation of "jabłko"? Neither the male nor the female voice gives a clear answer to this question. Sometimes they pronounce the ł almost like u and put the stress on it, and sometimes the stress is on the a and the ł is more like a consonant, as it usually should be. Can anyone give me a final answer?
It's not an easy word to pronounce, so in fact at least in rapid speech many people tend to not pronounce 'ł' at all, so it ends up being /japko/ ('b' is getting devoiced). This actually is even considered correct by linguists (perhaps not all of them).
If you try to pronounce it carefully, it's hard not to end up with "jabłuko" instead, 'błk' is a weird cluster of consonants.
I think you are safe with the simplified /japko/ pronunciation.
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Well, this sounds strange to me... I think I will not follow your advice and carry on pronouncing it as I used to do so far – with a distinct stress on the a and keeping the ł alive ;-) This works quite well for me. But anyway, dziękuję bardzo za odpowiedź!
...as for pronunciation˛ I `ve chosen the transcription brackets { } and try to explain it on the examples while you pronounce for instance some words - "football" in English {futbou}, jabłko {jabwko}, wykład {wykwad}, finałowy {fina (instead of "ł"you must touch the inside of your low teeth by the end the tongue, then you get the Polish sound "ł"}
If genative case follows quantity why is apple still jabłko. Is a quantity of 1 not really a quantity. Thanks for all the helpful discussions.
I believe you mixed up "quantities" with "quantifiers".
Quantifiers are: Wiele, dużo, więcej, kilka, sporo, mało, mniej... and numbers that end with the digits 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 (plus 11-14).
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You are the expert, but I think it's also those that end with 1, except the number 1 itself
I'm not sure if "jedno" can be considered an adjective, although it has some feature of it... I'd stick to calling it a numeral. The numeral "jeden" (1) is gendered: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jeden#Polish - this is the neuter form.
"2" is also gendered although it doesn't have a separate neuter form, and 3+ only have a distinction between 'not masculine-personal plural' (the default form for a numeral) and 'masculine personal plural'.
Would it be like this?
Mam tylko dwie jablka. Mam tylko piec jablek.
(Sorry, my laptop's US-EN keyboard can't type accents)