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- "Napiszemy do nich wiadomość."
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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
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"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..
