"Nie lubisz tej koszuli?"
Translation:Don't you like this shirt?
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"Do you not like this shirt?" sounds unnatural. A more natural English sentence with a similar meaning would be "Don't you like this shirt?" or, for a little different meaning, "You don't like this shirt?".
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Thanks for the reply. "Do you not" and "Don't you" aren't synonymous to me. "Do you not like" implies that they don't like it already, whereas "Don't you like" implies that they do already like it. They're two very different sentences and I feel that "do you not" is useful in fewer situations.
Actually, it seems to go otherwise. More and more inanimate nouns which have unmarked Accusative, that is Accusative = Nominative, start to behave like animate nouns, thus have Accusative marked similarly to animate nouns, that is Accusative = Genitive.
On the other hand, feminine nouns have Accusative form clearly different than Genitive and it doesn't seem to change.
Don't take it too far. Negated Accusative results in Genitive. It's not like any negation implies Genitive. You can read more about it here: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/28545847
The interesting and elucidating comment of BenYoung84 does not appear here, why? BenYoung84 wrote on "Nie lubisz tej koszuli?": Sure. The following are correct: Do you not like this shirt? Don't you like this shirt? Can she not help me? Can't she help me? Are they not listening? Aren't they listening? But if a contraction isn't used, it is incorrect to put "not" before the subject instead of after (like in the examples above). The following sentences are incorrect: Do not you like this shirt? Can not she help me? Cannot she help me? Are not they listening?
Scanatron said:
"Thanks for the reply. "Do you not" and "Don't you" aren't synonymous to me. "Do you not like" implies that they don't like it already, whereas "Don't you like" implies that they do already like it. They're two very different sentences and I feel that "do you not" is useful in fewer situations."
Despite this, I can´t grasp this subtle difference, to the point of "Don't you like" be considered as wrong ...
sujitkulkarni:
Ta koszula = This shirt (nominative)
Kupiłem tę koszulę = I bought this shirt (direct object accusative)
Nie kupiłem tej koszuli = I didn't buy this shirt (genitive required because of the negative word NIE).
In the plural it would be:
These shirts = Te koszule (nominative)
I bought these shirts = Kupiłem te koszule (direct object accusative)
I didn't buy these shirts = Nie kupiłem tych koszul (genitive required because of the negative word "didn't").
AbdullahSa535279:
You must use TEJ whenever the demonstrative THIS (feminine) appears in genitive.
LUBIĘ TĘ koszulę (TĘ KOSZULĘ is in ACCUSATIVE).
NIE LUBIĘ TEJ KOSZULI (TEJ KOSZULI is in GENITIVE).
The word NIE requires direct object in GENITIVE.
Nominative = TA (this in feminine) = TA KOSZULA
Accusative = TĘ = TĘ KOSZULĘ
Genitive = TEJ = TEJ KOSZULI.
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Android app. Once posted, I do not see any option to find and delete the new posted message. Yes, using the site, this option is available. But then, I don't know how to find the proper thread where the message has been posted.