"He does not remember everything."

Translation: On nie pamięta wszystkiego.

[maxik43]

"On wszystkiego nie pamieta" is correct too, no? Native polish here but my polish is fairly rusty.

[hersylia1234]

yes it is ok

[madziulajd]

I think it means "he does not remember anything" more

[Jellei]

No, that would be "On niczego nie pamięta".

[Cookie278476]

IMO. The answer is in Yoda style, I could say. It isn't wrong but sounds a bit wierd. ... It should be "On wszystkiego nie pamięta" which sounds better. In Poland form "On niczego nie pamięta" which means "He does not remember anything" is more popular.

[Ten_Pies_I_Brew]

Don't they mean different things? In English, "He doesn't remember everything" = "It's not the case that he remembers everything" = "There's something that he doesn't remember".

[PabloPiskunow]

"On nie wszystko pamięta" should be accepted too. "Wszystko" here is the object, instead of an adverb "wszystkiego".

[Jellei]

Makes sense to me. Added.

[froisea]

I wanted to put this as an answer, but the only option given was 'wszystkiego' which was marked as wrong.

[alik1989]

If you negate the verb, the object turns genitive:

On nie pamięta wszystkiego.

If you negate the pronoun ( this is one of the rather rare contexts where this makes sense), the object stays accusative:

On nie wszystko pamięta.

[Jellei]

Well... what was your word order? The main answer is "On nie pamięta wszystkiego", this one must have been possible to be created from the tiles.

[Rozelyn-Claire]

Is wszystko the nominative form?

[thequeerqueen]

yeah ;)

[Andyemanu]

What about "Wszystkiego nie pamięta"? Or does pronoun dropping not work with this sentence?

[Jellei]

I don't like this answer, but I can't say that it's wrong... added.

[Ten_Pies_I_Brew]

My understanding is that normally, Polish doesn't like to have pronouns at the end of a sentence (or independent clause). Does the same go for "wszystkiego" here?

[Jellei]

No, I'd put it at the end here, this time it's actually the most important part.

[Olexsa]

On nic nie pamięta?

[Ten_Pies_I_Brew]

I don't think that works. "He doesn't remember everything" means "There is something that he doesn't remember", whereas "On nic nie pamięta" means "There is nothing that he remembers".

[VcR9JJ27]

On nie pamięta niczego :-)

[Jellei]

Not sure if that's a suggestion, but that's a different sentence, "He doesn't remember anything" ;)

[VcR9JJ27]

W języku polskim występuje podwójne przeczenie

[alik1989]

Mam nadzieję, iż zdajesz sobie sprawę, że stosowanie podwójnej negacji kompletnie zmienia znaczenie wypowiedzi.

• On nie pamięta wszystkiego - Coś pamięta, ale nie wszystkiego w całości.
• On nie pamięta niczego - On w ogólne nic nie pamięta.

[GERARDJOHN5]

what happens to the sentence when you use nikt nie instead of wszystkiego

[Jellei]

Hmmm... it stops making any sense? I'm afraid I'm a bit lost about what you mean.