"Nie lubisz tej koszuli?"
Translation:Don't you like this shirt?
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Since "koszula" is fem., does it decline as "kobieta"? And if that's right, then the genitive form "koszuli" ends with -i , and not with an -y, because l is a soft consonant?
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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?".
"Do you not..." sounds completely natural to me, albeit a little old-fashioned or like in a fantasy. I say it a lot of the time with people I talk to, as do they.
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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.
It's natural to me, 'Don't you' sounds a little odd to me. It's just English dialectical variation.
I'm American, and I would say "Don't you" is much more common than "Do you not." The difference in meaning is conveyed by the tone of voice.
And "do not (don't) you like this shirt" sounds...? Contractions are the Yodadpeak of English.
Funny, I thought that contractions are the most natural, everday English.
They are in American English. We tend to "un-contract" for emphasis: Mom to daughter "I do NOT want you dating that boy"
Why is it genitive, because of the negation? Shouldn't it be accusative?
Correct. Though it was not stated by any tips or notes, the object of a verb in a negated sentence is genitive, as opposed to accusative.
Ex: koszula
-> Lubisz koszulę. (accusative)
-> Nie lubisz koszuli. (genitive)
I tried to think of a smart way to explain it and I've failed :( Just to cheer you up - quite a few Poles have problems with Genitive/Accusative distinction, especially when it comes to masculine nouns. In my opinion in several hundred years the accusative will cease to exist :)
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.
Well, I am not so sure. I keep getting spam like this: "Przestałaś nosić sukienek z powodu żylaków?" :)
Wait. What?!?! Holy Batman... Could this be my missing link? Is the "genitive case applies to negation" rule just for Polish? Or did I also miss it in all the other classes I've taken? This would explain so much. MIND = BLOWN
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
In Israel, Polish mothers have the reputation of Jewish mothers elsewhere. There’s a joke about a Polish mother who buys her son a red shirt and a blue shirt, so if she sees him wearing the red one she can say, ‘I knew you wouldn’t like the blue one…’ and vice versa.
A huge portion of the Jewish Mothers so famous in NYC have their roots in Poland!
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").
"Nie lubisz tamtej koszuli?"
Although actually, "that" already works here. Forms of [ten/ten/tamten] are more or less equivalent to [this/that/that], so the middle forms overlap.
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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Thanks. I've been told that staff already knows about this issue, however, they couldn't make any promises regarding when this will get fixed.
Could this sentence be an affirmation instead of a negation? Something like "You don't like this shirt".
Gonzalo857948:
Yes. It can be an assertion. Just suppress the question mark.
But even if it is an affirmation (or assertion), it is still a negation: you affirm the negation.