"Sorry, I did not hear you."
Translation:Przepraszam, nie usłyszałam was.
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Can I say "nie was usłyszałam" instead of "nie usłyszałam was"? Why not, if not?
Yes and no. Yes, because it's technically a correct sentence, but no, because it means something different. It means "It is not you that I heard. I heard someone else."
It's basically the case of what you negate - you just negated 'you' instead of the whole notion of 'hearing you'.
What if you didn't put ciebie at the end? Przepraszam, ciebie nie słyszałem. That reduces the emphasis on ciebie, so would that be acceptable?
Actually... it gives more emphasis on 'ciebie'. Why? Mostly because if you consider the clauses separately (they could also easily be separate sentences), you put 'ciebie' at the very beginning of the clause. That's grammatically okayish (but note that 'cię' absolutely couldn't be put here), but as quite often in sentences that the learners write, it looks like "Her - I heard, him - I heard, You - I didn't hear". Ergo: too weird.
My natural instinct is to put it at the end, I was just wondering how the different placement would effect it. (Also I can think of situations where the effect 'I heard them but not you' (or, more to the point, 'I didn't hear YOU') would be perfectly valid. Granted this isn't the norm though.) Bardzo dziękuje
Why include the "ja" the verb ending already indicates the first person singular or "I"
Yeah, using 'ja' wouldn't feel very natural here, although of course it's technically correct.
It would give too much emphasis, which in such a sentence doesn't really make sense. Kinda like "I did not hear YOU - but I did hear THEM".
How would this work if you were using 'pan' or 'pani'? Przepraszam, nie słyszałam pani! ?
"(u)słyszeć" takes Genitive, which for "pani" is still "pani", true. For "pan" it would be "Przepraszam, nie słyszałem pana".
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Tak, zgadzam się. Ale niech pan, panie Jellei, powie to Duo, bo ten ptak w tym właśnie ćwiczeniu "przykro mi" odmawia się przyjmować. )
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Przeszedłem już przez całe Polskie drzewo umiejętności i zobaczyłem tego ptaka w pięknym szaliku. Pewien czas miałem ambicje powiększyć te cyfry obok Polskiej flagi, ale robiło się nudno raz za razem powtarzać te same ćwiczenia. Dlatego próbowałem urozmaicić sobie to spędzanie czasu i pozwalałem sobie eksperymentować z różnymi słowami, których się nauczyłem. Panu osobiście chcę wyrazić pięknie dzięki za cierpliwość i szybkie odpowiedzi i rozjaśnienia.
One of them surely had to be there, otherwise you can't answer. And no one has proven so far that it really wasn't possible to create any of the starred answers.
