"I respect my uncle."
Translation:Szanuję mojego wujka.
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'szanować' takes Accusative, 'wujek' is surely masculine and animate, so the right form is 'mojego'.
Would "szanuję moj wujka" still be applicable or "szanuję moj wujek" or does it have to be "mojego" i still dont fully grasp the whole accusative talk etc. Sorry if this seems a silly question
It has to be "Szanuję mojego wujka". The whole noun phrase "mój wujek" (my uncle) has to be in Accusative case because the verb "szanować" requires its direct object to take the Accusative case.
Is it more common in Poland in sentences like this to use mojego or swojego?
Hard to say. With 1st person pronouns, both versions are natural. But perhaps it's safer to learn that if only a form of "swój" is correct, it's better to use that one.
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Can I use "mego" or "swego" instead of "mojego" and "swojego"? Are these words normal? :D
They are kinda dated and a bit... bookish? Poetic? There was a time when we decided to add those forms to every sentence where they were correct and actually we stopped after 10 or 15 sentences because they just didn't feel natural almost anywhere.
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Thanks. I'm finding these forms convenient sometimes in spoken language. Just wasn't sure if they are "technically" correct
i am a bit confused, doesn't (on) Szanuje and (ja) Szanuję sound the same? You are supposed to understand who does this action depending on the context?
Yes, and in reality there's not much place for doubt, the context will usually make it perfectly obvious.
Historically there was a difference, but it was lost. I guess the ę was kept there so at least the difference in written language would remain.
"wujek" is the basic, Nominative form, used mostly for the subject of the sentence.
"wujka" is Accusative, used for the direct object of most verbs, as here.