Translation:Do you have a family?
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No rodzina means family and includes your grandfather's half-sister's great-granddaughter's husband.
But in some context it means parents with children/your spouse and children. But if you ask me that question I'll politely reply that yes, my parents are healthy and I'm currently flatmates with my cousin's daughter.
Just like in English, I guess. My family, based on context, might mean the people in my home (and closest relatives, if we don't live together), while it can also mean everyone you are related to.
Though I have always wondered, since we all share a common ancestor, where does family end and humanity begin?
Is there a separate word in Polish for extended family and for near family?
I don't know how to explain it properly in English, but in my language we have "porodica" (you and your parents & grandparents/you and your spouse and kids) and "familija/rodbina" (other family, like aunts, uncles, cousins, great-grandparents, non-direct grandparents, etc.).
"Do you have family" was marked wrong.
As far as I know the difference between having family and having a family is that a family refers to a partner and children etc. whereas family refers to relations/relatives.
Can you tell from rodzina that it refers to a partner and children rather than relatives like parents etc? Otherwise shouldn't "Do you have family" also be accepted? Or am I wrong about the distinction between having family and having a family?
I have no idea why you ask it here, but myć=wash goes with accusative. Mieć = have also goes with accusative, and all verbs that go with accusative go with genitive when negated.
But I do not know where you had this imply vague possesion = genitive?
When the question is whose? and English people add 's at the end - Poles use genitive
Kasia's cat= kot Kasi
but if any "imply vague" verbs go with genitive - they are negative verbs, they imply need
I found a list of verbs, with genitive (according to this webpage http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/140223,,,,dopelniacz,haslo.html)
negative verbs nienawidzić - hate; odmawiać- refuse; negować, brakować-lack
other verbs : bać się-be afraid of/fear, brakować/ braknąć lack, chcieć want, dokonywać/ dokonać manage, domagać siędemand, dotyczyć apply, concern, dotykać/ dotknąćtouch, doznawać/ doznaćfeel, lękać siębe afraid/fear, obawiać siębe afraid, fear, oczekiwaćwait, odmawiać/ odmówićrefuse, pilnować guard, look after, potrzebować need, pragnąćwant, próbować/ spróbowaćtry, słuchaćlisten, spodziewać się expect, szukać/ poszukaćsearch, look for, uczyć się/ nauczyć się learn, udzielać/ udzielić ??, unikać/ uniknąć avoid, używać/ użyć use, wymagać demand, wstydzić się be ashamed , wystarczać/ wystarczyć be enough, zabraniać/ zabronić forbid, zakazywać/ zakazać forbid, zapominać/ zapomnieć forget, zazdrościć be jealous, żałować regret, życzyć wish.
D występuje też z czasownikami z przedrostkami do- (w zn.: dodać coś do czegoś) oraz na- (w zn. osiągnąć cel), prefixes do- meaning add and -na meaning accomplish, reach target
np.: doczekać się, dokupić, dolać, dosypać, naczytać się, nagadać, naopowiadać, naznosić
someone made more coherent list here https://www.duolingo.com/comment/12459057
Thanks! I mixed up myć and mieć (I meant the last one ;))
So the genitive indicates possession (this was clear to me), so I thought with the verb 'mieć' (to have), the object with that verb actually is being possessed (in this case: a family). I was wondering why it isn't in accusative. Now i see that the appropriate question is 'whose' family... (And this object is absent in this sentence, so no genitive... :))