"Gdzie jest moja łyżka?"

Translation: Where is my spoon?

[Zauber32]

There is no spoon.

[mizinamo]

How would one say that in Polish?

Nie ma łyżki ?

[Jellei]

Unless I'm mistaken, the translation in "Matrix" was "Łyżka nie istnieje." (The spoon doesn't exist)

It sure sounds better as a standalone phrase.

Maybe "Nie ma żadnej łyżki" (more like 'There IS NO spoon') would sound okayish.

[mihxal]

Yes

[anothernobody]

It ran away with the dish!

[hughcparker]

Why isn't it moją łyżką? I thought nouns took the instrumental case after jest?

[mihxal]

Nouns in Instrumental occur when there are at least two nouns. One of them should appear in Nominative and another one in Instrumental and often the word functions are not interchangeable. The noun in Instrumental can be treated as a complement of the verb "być": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_%28linguistics%29#Slavic

Here you can see so-called existential "być" which corresponds to English "there is/are" and it refers to the existence or presence of something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_clause

[NickFleck]

I make these comments to entertain; I suppose mostly myself; it makes learning easier. How about this: Where is moja spoon. Oh, well. Does dyslexia cause such a jump across languages? Perhaps a good question for a neuroscientist or a poet, Zagajewski.

[NickFleck]

If the emphasis is on my (moja) then this person has an attitude. Too bad this cannot be noticed in such things as email and Polish lessons.