"Idę do kolegi." - Polish prepositions/and translation

Idę do kolegi.

How would that translate into English.

And is kolegi male/female/plural/singular.

cheers.

I'm going to friend.

kolega - male, singular

Idę do kolegi

Translation: I'm going to see one of my friends/colleagues.

Word for word translation: I go to colleague.

Iść - to go infinitive.
Idę - I am going, literally, I go - the first person singular.

Iść do [kogo? czego?], these are questions of genitive case, so the noun which follows should be in the genitive case. We say that the verb iść do requires genitive or in other words governs the genitive case.

kolega - nominative case, by the way this is masculine noun, ten kolega, tho' the ending of it is typical for the feminine.

kolegi - genitive case of kolega

So we've got:

Idę do kolegi.

QED

thanks a lot

QED?

and how come there is no "to see" in polish

why drop wiedzic.......i think thats how you spell to see in polish

I am translating senses not words. The point is that while translating, you must not be enslaved to the extent of rendering word for word. And if anyone does so, this comes from his impoverishment and deficiency of wit.

Idę = I go
do = to
kolegi = friend (not close friend)/colleague.

You don't say "I go to friend" in English. But it's easy to understand what it means.

but if someone said that to me id know their first language aint english :))

No it isn't, it's "I'm going"
"I go" is "ja idę"
and "go" is "idź"


Lol. I wouldn't understand. Like plg said, you know their first language ain't english

They're both I go and I'm going. If you want continuous action, add 'właśnie'

'właśnie idę'

There is no such expression in the English language as "I go". Foreigners don't see that and natives don't speak like that.

I go to school every day. I go shopping every week. I go skiing in the winter.

Just three examples out of billions.

Those should be translated as: Chodzę do szkoły codziennie, Chodzę na zakupy co tydzień, Jeżdżę na nartach zimą.
I think there's no example when idę means I go. It always translates as I'm going.

Cinek

I have no quarrel with that ;-)
I just reacted to the statement, I quote, "There is no such expression in the English language as "I go"."

Because we are talking here about "I go to friend". There is no expression like that in English, not talking about past or present tense or whole sentences. Of course you can say "I go shopping" but you don't say "I go to shop" or "I go to ski"

And that is a statement I cannot disagree with :-)

cinek
I go nuts every time I hear him singing that song.

urszula
I go to ski in Switzerland every February.

This desn't translate as 'Ide...'
the translation will be:

Wkurza mnie kiedy on śpiewa tę piosenkę.

'Go nuts' is an idiom, and cannot be translated literally.

Cinek