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- "Lew nie jest tygrysem."
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What was your answer? Nobody can help you without knowing what your answer was and what type of exercise it was.
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Can someone link me a useful website that shows how to conjugate nouns like this? I don't know whether to use Tygrys, Tygrysem, etc. I'm not used to a language where verbs change so I need to learn these.
Have a look here, mostly at the part about cases of course.
This website is quite good for learning grammar.
Why don't I use genitive case for negation "Lew nie jest tygrysa"? Why is it still instrumental case?
The genitive for negation works only with accusative, and not after prepositions.
I am not Polish, but it appears that the instrumental takes precedence over the genitive.
Why does 'nie' come before 'jest' here, but in another example, it came after?
You need to point that example, because in Polish nie is most often before verb. Only if you clearly want to negate other word. (Jesteś nie chłopcem , lecz mężczyzną- You are not a boy, but a man)
But I think you may think about sentence like
Lew to nie (jest) tygrys.
There is no verb here. (if jest is ommitted), and you put "nie" after to.
The example is "Kawa to nie śniadanie". I just got it and copy pasted it. To me this word order sound more natural but I've only been learning Polish for a day :P
To say "You are a lion, not a tiger", would "Jesteś lewsem, nie tygrysem" be correct? Dziękuję
Hahaha well I'm afraid that 'lewsem' is so far from the correct word that quite possibly people wouldn't even understand. I like the word, though :D
The Instrumental of "lew" is "lwem". Yeah, I guess it's less regular than usual.
