"Nie możesz mieć małpy!"

Translation: You cannot have a monkey!

[PierreMDL]

HAHA ! So wait, I learned that the accusative object of a verb takes the genitive form if the verb is negated. But here it's even trickier because the modal verb is negated, and not the infinitive, which governs the accusative. But still the accusative has to turn into the genitive. Madness is upon our heads.

[Euhan1]

Polish is screwing with us...

[Euhan1]

Can't you have a pet slug instead...

[Celina689105]

What's the plural for monkey?

[alisa488338]

Why do you correct me? (You can`t have a monkey)

[Jellei]

This should have worked.

[Mrs.Mop]

I put, you can not have a monkey. I feel this is correct, and emphasizing that it is not possible for you to have a monkey. Have I forgotten my English???

[Jellei]

I feel that there's no consensus on whether "can not" is a correct synonym of "cannot" or not. Recently we decided to start adding that... so added here.

(But I think that it would have been accepted anyway, you'd just get a 'you have an extra space' warning...)