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- "Widzę was przez okno."
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This excersize reafs like a ver-book for stalker; i am walking though your house, I am under your bed, I am behind the door, I see you yhrough the window... what is next? I watch you, while you sleep?
Not sure if that is a joke but i have definitely had 'i watch youh while you sleep ' lol
The English Wiktionary is wrong in this matter. The Polish one clearly states that it should be accusative.
A clever problem that's hard to imagine in a realistic context. But… you can either try the exact same sentence as above, or you could specify it by saying „Widzę was z powodu okna”.
„Okno” is neuter, so it should be „wasze” (or „twoje”, as appropriate). Of course that's assuming the object you see was somehow specified in the context, because that's what would the verb „widzieć” would expect (unless we are talking about seeing as opposote to literally being blind). For looking at nothing in particular through the window you would use the verb „patrzę”.
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Why is it not "przez okna" in this case? Shouldn't change the ending after a preposition?
There is no such rule that says all endings must change after a preposition. Przez requires accusative and the accusative of okno is okno.
No. „Was” is the genitive, accusative, and locative forms of „wy”.
„Wasz” is a separate word and behaves more like an adjective.
Weszła przez okno łazienki. (Weszła przez okno w łazience. - poprawione.)
(Chroniony srebrną łyżka.)
Niedziela jest przez telefon do poniedziałku. Wtorek jest do mnie przez telefon.
I have no idea what the reference is, but "on the phone" doesn't translate well into Polish, I guess you can only say "rozmawiać przez telefon", so simply "to talk on the phone" (or literally 'through the phone').
Also, I don't understand the grammar - why 'to Monday', 'to me'?
It's lifted from the lyrics to "You Never Give Me Your Money." The verse in question personifies Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, referring to them as if they were people.
Both "w łazience" and "łazienki" seem perfectly correct and natural to me.
We thought about it, and we think that seeing something from the window implies standing at the window, while through the window does not, which makes them kinda different.
"Patrzę na [ciebie/was] przez okno."
ciebie/was = singular/plural 'you'
It's nothing about this sentence.
When I say "blisko", it means so close that I can even touch it?
If you can walk or drive there without having to think twice, then it still can be "blisko".
