"Nie widzimy kobiet."

Translation: We do not see the women.

[ZosiaD5]

A woman (sing.) -> kobieta
Widzimy kobietę
Nie widzimy kobiety
Women (plur.) -> kobiety
Widzimy kobiety
Nie widzimy kobiet
I hope it's clearer

[johnwarzecha]

Why does it take the genitive case in this sentence?

[immery]

Accusative changes to genitive in negation

[johnwarzecha]

Dziękuję!

[Aytacz]

is there any source to learn how to make genitive from plural words ?

[Jellei]

This website is generally very good: http://mowicpopolsku.com/polish-grammar/cases/genitive/#noun-plural

However, it is not free from mistakes, for example half of the neuter singular Genitive here is wrong. Plural seems fine, when I read quickly through the examples. Just one thing I noticed, "partia" is not "a part", it's a political party and sometimes a role, like in the theatre ;)

[lisboho]

Thank you so much Jellei this is good to recap on the sounds

[marsgorski]

What's wrong with "We don't see a woman"?

[immery]

"kobiet" is genitive plural form of "kobieta" , so English translation should keep the plural

[v.ivanov]

And not 'We don't see any women'? Or that'd be something with 'żadnych'?

[Jellei]

We try to accept 'any' where it makes sense, although technically it's closer to "żadnych". Anyway, added now.

[NickFleck]

How do you say po polsku: We do not see women.

[alik1989]

We do not see women is an accepted answer in this exercise.

[Aqie.l.asian]

Wait, I thought that kobiety meant women. Why is this different?

[Jellei]

Well... grammar. "kobiety" is the Nominative form (used for the subject of the sentence, e.g. "Te kobiety są wysokie" = "These women are tall"), it's also the Accusative form ("Widzę kobiety" = "I see the women"), but here you need Genitive, which is "kobiet". Why Genitive? If you negate a verb that normally takes Accusative, it takes Genitive instead. Other cases stay unchanged when negated.

[Aqie.l.asian]

Thank you so much.

[Ross216229]

It doesn't accept don't instead of do not. Is there a reason?

[Jellei]

Such things are accepted automatically, we don't even have to remember about listing them separately as accepted answers. The mistake must have been somewhere else.