"Znasz tamtą kobietę?"

Translation: Do you know that woman?

[chce_polski]

Busted!

[Vidfarne]

Aren't -ą and -ę supposed to match all the time?

[vytah]

In feminine singular accusative, adjective declension has -ą and noun declension has -ę. Tę is an exception.

In feminine singular instrumental, both adjective declension and noun declension have -ą.

[Vidfarne]

Thanks, I guess sometimes there just isn't any shortcut to just learning declensiontables by heart.

[delanthear]

Does the presence of the ? mean it is 'do you'? Or am i missing something else which creates the question in the grammar?

[Jellei]

Yes, exactly. Or you can start the sentence with "czy" to make it clear that it's a yes/no question.

[PolskaNatasha]

How do we know when to use kobietę versus kobiety?

[Jellei]

Well, they are different forms. "kobietę" is Accusative singular. "kobiety" is: Nominative/Accusative plural, and also Genitive singular (most feminine nouns have those three forms identical). So you need to know which case is needed by which verb/preposition/construction.

[Kashakot]

I thought i read in previous comments on another excercise that tamtą isnt a word/correct?

[Jellei]

That may have been about "tamtę", because people could expect such a form (to match the -ę ending of the feminine noun) but it indeed doesn't exist.

"tamtą" is definitely the correct Accusative feminine form.

[SlviaC2]

I think you have to use the question word "czy":
-Czy znasz tamtą kobietę?
Instead of:
-Znasz tamtą kobietę?
I heard both versions, not sure if both versions are correct. If somebody from Poland can tell this would be nice :)

[Jellei]

Both are correct, and "czy" isn't really that common.

[John561251]

This was so confusing to me, I've always thought that to make any form of "this" become "that" I just needed to add "tam-" as a prefix. Apparently this works for every form except the feminine singular accusative lol

[Jellei]

Yes, this is the only exception.

And many people actually incorrectly use "tą", some dictionaries even consider it okay in speech. Still considered wrong in writing though.

[corneliapl4]

I write correct.they say it is wrong

[alik1989]

Your report reads: 'Do you know that women'.