"Nie masz czarnych skarpet."
Translation:You do not have black socks.
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Well, there was plural used in the sentence, and Genitive plural (needed by "nie masz") is "skarpet".
"skarpety" could be Genitive singular (Nie masz czarnej skarpety), one sock.
And of course "skarpety" is Nominative plural, and also Accusative plural.
Apart from the fact that it's plural Genitive ('mieć' = 'to have' takes Accusative in positive sentences, and most (all?) of those that take Accusative in positive, turn into Genitive when negated), what else is a problem?
Negation. accusative changes to genitive in negated sentence.
Masz czarne skarpety- nie masz czarnych skarpet.
As Immery said. Adjective gets inflected alongside with the noun and negation causes them both to be in genitive case. Here you can find full declension of the word "czarny": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/czarny
Fyi, i just had an exercise where instead of "skarpet" for genitive plural, they only had "skarpetek" to choose from. I assume this is an error rather than an acceptable alternative, but please confirm.
Oh, that's actually me working on an update of the course getting in the way of the current course... but I think it's okay even now.
So basically, I was always surprised about two choices that the course creators made: firstly, teaching the diminutive form "ciasteczko" (more like a 'little cookie') rather than the basic "ciastko", and secondly, teaching "skarpeta" which makes me think of a thick woolen sock for winter rather than what I'd consider to be basic: "skarpetka". In the upcoming update, we changed those two words (and their forms) and as sentences for "socks" are the same, now you see the updated version. I know it's confusing, but hopefully it won't be much of a problem.
So, anyway, "skarpetek" is Genitive plural of "skarpetka", and I do believe that it's a more natural wording.
Got it, thanks! I've also been told that ciasteczko often refers to an internet cookie, though I'm not sure if it's true.
Well... Wikipedia gives it as one of the options for the name (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie), but I think that simple "plik cookie" ("plik" = "file") is the most common term.
The Polish sentence doesn't specify that it's about wearing socks. Nie masz czarnych skarpet either means that you don't own any, or you just don't have any with you at the moment.