"Napiszemy do nich wiadomość."
Translation:We will write a message to them.
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2015/12/12 "We will write them a message." not accepted. I think, it should. Reported.
Aaaaaand it's both ;) For example, a private message on some website is "prywatna wiadomość". And the news show in public TV channel 1 is called "Wiadomości".
Can the word "depesz" (which I guess is derived from French "depeche") be used with the meaning of "message"? It seems to show up in older, mainly military, contexts.....
It's 'depesza' and it seems very old-fashioned, at least unless you have a very specific context.
Military or journalistic dispatch is a report so not quite a message I suppose
Not sure. Wiktionary says "wire copy" or "telegram".
"dispatch" in this meaning seems to be: raport/sprawozdanie/meldunek.
I thought the "do" preposition required the Genitive and not the Locative, so shouldn't it be "do ich" instead of "do nich"?
It is Genitive. Many personal pronouns in some cases have 2 forms (longer or shorter; a few has also 3rd very short form).
Generaly, after the prepositions which govern the form of pronoun, we write the longer form of pronoun:
do ciebie instead of
do cię
do niego instead ofdo jego
do nich instead ofdo ich
You may read about it here - but there is probably no other way than to memorize when which form should be used.
See the forms of personal pronouns here
"do nich" is used for ease of speech i guess. I think the best way to know which one to use (IMHO) is to try to read the sentence both ways and kinda "feel it". Then again my native lang. is also slavic so it is easier for me..
The correct future tense in English uses shall for first person pronouns (I and we) and will for the others. When this usage is reversed, and will is used with I and we, determination is implied and reversing works for others as well "Cinderella, you SHALL go to the ball!" This is of course being picky but I ve been marked wrong twice for using shall with we - a bit annoying:)
As discussed in another thread, this word order is at least non-standard and we don't want to accept it, given that people learn English here as well.
We WILL write ... is wrong, as I/we SHALL write a message to them. We can say will only when it's a promise or even threat
What percentage of the native speakers of English actually use it that way?
We accept "shall" here, but to say that "will" is wrong seems really too much to me...