"She knows me."
Translation:Ona mnie zna.
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Is there a difference in emphasis between 'Ona mnie zna' and 'Ona zna mnie'?
If there is, could someone please explain it? :)
While I cant't tell you why, I can tell you how I as a native speaker "feel them" "Ona mnie zna" feels like a normal sentence , it could be stressed on any part and be said as a statement or question "Ona zna mnie" has stress on "mnie" and also feels more like a question or exclamation than normal statement.
Only the first one sounds natural. You can use the latter in some context to emphasize the object (mnie):
"Ona zna mnie, ale ciebie nie" = "She knows me, but not you".
Zna is similar to Russian Знать (znat') which means the same, and it's pronounced at the same way, and mnie is similar to мне (mnie).
Why couldn't it be, "Ona mi zna" ? Does "mi" mean something different? I thought is meant the same thing as "mnie."
It doesn't work with mi. That's the dative case, but we need the accusative.
