"I am lending you my clothes."
Translation:Pożyczam wam moje ubrania.
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Tobie was also accepted as the right answer.
What are the differences between wam, ci, tobie and tobią?
"tobią" - not a word. The closest is "tobą", which is 2nd person singular Instrumental (e.g. "Rozmawiam z tobą" = "I am talking with you, John").
The rest is Dative, which is the case needed here, used for the indirect object of the sentence.
"ci" - 2nd person singular.
"wam" - 2nd person plural.
"tobie" - the emphasized variant of "ci", so it's like "I am lending YOU my clothes, I am not lending them to John!". It shouldn't be accepted here, I guess the answer stayed from the old times when we were more lenient about this. Removed now, because there's just no reason in this sentence to use an emphasized form.
I was marked wrong for using "tobie" I put: Pożyczam tobie moje ubrania It said the correct answer was: Pożyczam wam moje ubrania.
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in Polish 'clothes' are 'ubrania' but also 'rzeczy'. So the answer 'Pożyczam wam moje rzeczy' is correct and should be accepted.
Could you please link to a dictionary that lists such a meaning?
I can even agree that people sometimes use "rzeczy" in such a way, but that's definitely colloquial language and come on, you need a very, very specific context for the word "rzeczy" to be understood as "clothes".
In fact I can imagine saying "rozpakowałem swoje rzeczy" - "I unpacked my things", but there were other things in the suitcase, not only clothes...