"I would not talk about it if I were you."

Translation: Nie mówiłbym o tym na twoim miejscu.

[Shuuichi73]

Why aren't translations like "Na twoim miejscu nie mówiłbym o tym." accepted? I'm Polish (doing this course just for fun) and I would say it like I wrote above.

[martiankoolaid]

This was such an awkward sentence.

[Mudkip20]

"Nie mówiłbym o tym gdybym był ty", tak czy nie możliwe?

[alik1989]

gdybym był *tobą

[F4yY9kZj]

That's what I wrote, and it was accepted, but I wondered: is it kind of clunky, compared with the preferred answer ('na twoim miejscu')?

[Jellei]

Yes, I'd say it is. It's strangely literal. I mean, it's not that surprising (even a person who doesn't know English and doesn't know the phrase "if I were you" probably wouldn't be that surprised), but still, "na twoim miejscu" is the basic way of saying that, definitely.

[frustr4t]

Does this excercise accept both genders for this sentence?

[jumbo420]

"O tym nie mówiłabym na twoim miejscu"?

[Jellei]

Starting with "O tym"... hmm, sounds probable enough. I'd recommend "O tym by nie mówiła" in such a case, though. But ok, added.

[gkouye]

Why "mówiłbym" and not "powiedziałbym"? I would think the point isn't just not talking, it's not talking about it, or telling it, to someone else .

[Jellei]

Well, then the English sentence should rather be "I wouldn't say it"/"I wouldn't tell it", I think.

Also I believe that "Nie powiedziałbym" sounds to me like it's kinda too late - you already did say it, so I'm saying that I think it was a mistake.

[gkouye]

Oh, I just remembered that powiedzieć is perfective and mówić is imperfective, and when you say not to do something, you normally use imperfective.

[alik1989]

That's true for imperatives, but powiedziałbym/mówiłbym are in the conditional mood.

I also think that with powiedzieć the English translation would need the past tense (e.g. 'I wouldn't have said it').

[BruceAdams14]

What is the literal translation of "na twoim miejscu". It seems like "in your place/circumstances".

[alik1989]

Yes, "in/at your place/location."

Circumstances would be okoliczności, which doesn't fit here.

[grzechutek]

"Nie mówiłbym o tym jeśli byłbym na twoim miejscu."
Ewentualnie "Nie mówiłbym o tym jeśli byłbym tobą"
Czy te tłumaczenia są błędne, że są nieuznawane?

[alik1989]

"Nie mówiłbym o tym jeśli byłbym na twoim miejscu."

Według mnie, na twoim miejscu już wskazuje na hipotetyczność tej sytuacji, więc tryb przypuszczający jest tu niepotrzebny. Ale ok... dodałem.

Nie mówiłbym o tym jeśli byłbym tobą.

Nie wiem... Odrzuciłem to już kiedyś, bo taka konstrukcja wydaje się zbyt rzadka.
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26819864?comment_id=43434093
Ale niech już będzie, dodałem.

[Jarek7781]

Nie rozmawiałbym o tym na twoim miejscu

[Jellei]

Looks like an oversight, added now.

[orexan]

"Na twoim miejscu o tym nie mówiłbym" was not accepted. Is this too inverted to make sense?

[Jellei]

I know that you probably wanted to avoid putting a pronoun at the end... but yes, this is quite weird.

Polish generally has a lot of stuff that 'shouldn't be put at the end of the sentence'... and forms of the -by particle (in "mówiłbym") are one of those. If the second clause was to start with "o tym", then I'd split "mówiłbym" into "bym mówił" and went with "Na twoim miejscu o tym bym nie mówił".