"Widzę kota."

Translation: I see a cat.

[PoraJ]

Kota? Isn't it kot? Am I missing a case here?

[dgkeller]

It's a masculine animate accusative, therefore it takes the 'a'.

[HlaoRoo]

I thought dz made a J-like sound in Polish, but the pronunciation here is vid-zeh?

[Jellei]

"dż" does, it's like the beginning of "jungle".

But "dz" without a dot is another sound, like the ending of "woods".

[HlaoRoo]

So is it the 'i' in 'widzisz', for example, that causes the dz to take a J-like sound?

[Jellei]

This 'i' softenes it, "dzi" makes the same sound like "dź" (with an 'accent', not a dot). Which isn't the same sound as dż/English 'j', but I'm afraid it's difficult to compare the palatalized sounds to English.