"Rolnik tęskni za swoją żoną."

Translation: The farmer misses his wife.

[Patrykpz]

Poor farmer

[Timoak100]

The farmer misses his missis

[one_half_3544]

What about 'The farmer is longing for his wife'?

[Jellei]

Makes sense, added.

[Rimdus]

What does mean 'za' in this sentence?

[one_half_3544]

Just a preposition that you use with this verb.

[ePon2]

Not sure if it helps but I think of it like 'he is longing for' rather than 'he misses'
That way the 'za' is like the 'for' part of it in my head. Might be totally wrong on a language level though!

[mihajlikgy_pl]

Why don' t we use 'jego' instead of 'swoją'?

[qarmati]

in polish, as well as in other slavic languages, "jego" in this context would mean a third person. the farmer likes his heighbour's wife and misses her. if you want to say that it is this farmer's wife, "swoja" is much more natural

[Annick962100]

Sometimes I feel like I'm punished for making mistakes in English ... It's not my mother tongue ...

[Timoak100]

Don't worry about it, it's frustrating for me as an English speaker to find that my usage is not acceptable on occasions

[qarmati]

why not peasant?

[Jellei]

"Peasant" is either an archaic usage or an offensive one.

[m1k0]

People will think you snooty if you call someone a peasant.

[J.i.t.L]

After "Tęskni za" is genitive right?

[one_half_3544]

No, it is instrumental.

[DavidCarver]

Presumably it means that he is grieving for her, not that he failed to meet up with her - another meaning of "miss"

[Jellei]

It is possible, but I wouldn't assume so without a context, she may be visiting her mother, or may be on holidays in Egypt.

[Azcatral]

I was just wondering, is the pronunciation of the whole sentence pre-recorded or is there a hidden AI mechanism behind every sentence gluing together pieces of words?

[Jellei]

After creating a new sentence in the Incubator (the website used for creating courses), the text-to-speech audio file is automatically created. This is read like a whole sentence, but the Incubator also creates slow audio which can read the words one-by-one.

Only very few courses have actual real recordings of human voice.

[tyleryounesrocks]

Najlepszy serial telewizyjny

[Calum616691]

So 'The farmer lends us his wife' is not the answer !?

[alik1989]

Erm... Where did you get this idea from?

[Calum616691]

It was a joke my friend, as it was the only alternative answer available. ;)

[alik1989]

Alternative words and sentences are thrown in randomly, so it may have looked funny to you at that moment, but no one else will understand where this joke is coming from.

[tomatosz]

"The farmer misses her wife"?

[Jellei]

A female farmer would rather be "rolniczka", so your sentence is not a translation of the Polish one.