"On nie jest moim przyjacielem, on jest moim znajomym."
Translation:He is not my friend, he is my acquaintance.
January 28, 2016
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Adam_cph
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Despite being a native English speaker... the most difficult part of this is spelling 'acquaintance' :D
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.
BruceAdams14
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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?
Slater91
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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.