"The woman and the man are eating."
How the heck does this app expect me to spell in Polish?! Not enough practice before i am expected to write it!! Getting discouraged!!!
Is the ą on jedzą because thats the object?
It's third person plural of jeść.
Yes, "a" is the "and" that shows contrast. "A man and a woman" are just two subject combined, there's no contrast between them.
"The man is eating and the woman is drinking" is contrasting them, thus "a" would be needed for such sentence.
Ahhh, so it's for contrast in what is happening, not the subject?
Hmmm. I think you could say that. Although not always it will be "happening".
"Ona czyta gazetę, a ja książkę" (She is reading a newspaper, and I (am reading) a book".
Ah, okay, I see. Would I be safe to use "a" at all times even when talking about contrasting actions? Just for simplicity's sake until the point when I will start worrying about being completely fluent, or would it be a good idea to make sure I learn it now so that I know it and don't have to worry about it?
"Ona czyta książkę i ja czytam książkę" (She is reading a book and I am reading a book) - this doesn't show contrast, the subjects are doing the same thing.
Forgive me, just realised my typo; I meant: Would I be safe to use "i" at all times, even when talking about contrasting actions?
No. You should carefully choose between i and a. Sometimes both are possible, but it's hard to put an example just out of my head.
Again, you cannot have "kobieta" and "człowiek" in one sentence, contrasted, because that would sound as if the woman was not human.
If the sentence is weird from the beginning, then sure. Like, in the Science skill we could potentially have "Ta kobieta pochodzi z Wenus" (no, we do not teach the word "Wenus"). But you took a normal sentence and translated it with a super unlikely interpretation. We can't risk anyone thinking that it's a normal thing to say "kobieta i człowiek".
Being honest, I had this wrong 15 times.. Polish is really really hard !
I put ten kobieta i ten mężczyzna, but it turned out wrong, any explanation?
Sure. "ten kobieta" makes no grammatical sense. "kobieta" is feminine (obviously), so the right form of "this" is "ta".
"ta kobieta i ten mężczyzna".
Those are anyway just 'interpretations' of the article "the", because it doesn't really have any translation. It's just that often we can understand "the" as "this", and your version is such an interpretation.
There needs to be a button to hear what the sentence is in polish. Great to be able to read it, better to pair the words to actually speaking it.
Are there any alt codes to make the polish special letters?
the easiest way is to install Polish programmer's keyboard, and then use right alt+ letter.