"On nie jest moim przyjacielem, on jest moim znajomym."
Translation:He is not my friend, he is my acquaintance.
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since the Polish uses "moim" in the second part, I would say my acquaintance and not "an" acquaintance
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Despite being a native English speaker... the most difficult part of this is spelling 'acquaintance' :D
Judging by the "znajo" in "znajomym" I'm assuming that it just refers to someone you know, or have met. Is this correct? Does "znajomym" exclude friends?
"znajomy" is "someone I know". Friends are included, but... they are just closer, right? They are more than "znajomi".
"znajomi" is the word for "friends" on Facebook, which itself tells a lot. Usually the list of people I know, but not necessarily know well.
This is a "X jest Y" type of sentence where the subject complement Y must take the instrumental case.
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16373167
Possessive pronouns take the same case as the noun they refer to, so since przyjaciel and znajomy take the instrumental case, so should mój.
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Why do we get really hard spellings in practices that we don't have to spell yet in the 'real' lessons?
I wrote --- he is not a friend of mine, he is an acquaintance ---
This was marked wrong and I cannot see why, because the hints gave this as an option!!!
I don't know where this hint came from, but it's correct, true. Added this answer now.
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As I am on mobile I don't know how hold your comment is, Jellei, but I just tried "he is not a friend of mine, he is an acquaintance of mine" and it was rejected.
The comment is 3 months old. That is right, I added "a friend of mine" but somehow missed that option with "acquaintance". Added now, should work soon.
It's possible that the app decided the sentence is too long to fit on your phone's screen twice (firstly: the length of the tiles you need, secondly: the length of the room you need to create the sentence) and therefore it prefilled it for you...