"I do not see a woman here."

Translation: Nie widzę tu żadnej kobiety.

[pie3636]

Why is "Tu nie widzę kobiety" wrong?

[RobinB896941]

Duo currently/still rejects

"Tutaj nie widzę kobiety"

and instead proposes

"Ja nie widzę tu kobiety."

:~{

[Jellei]

Frankly, I disagree with the idea of calling "Tutaj nie widzę kobiety" a good translation. Sure, it's grammatical and so on, but putting "tutaj" at the beginning (and also at the end) gives an unusual emphasis. It's like "HERE I do not see a woman (but I do see women almost everywhere else".

[RobinB896941]

Thanks, Jellei!

So the rules I take away from here are:

1) "Tutaj" at the beginning or end of a sentence is OK if special emphasis is intended;

2) Elsewhere, "tu" and "tutaj" are interchangeable (though "tutaj" is safer for me because it looks less like the French for "ty");

3) In some cases, even native Polish speakers disagree amongst themselves ;-)

[chb0lingo]

Is leaving out 'tu' crucial here? I put Nie widzę kobiety

[Vengir]

The original sentence contained "here", so you should not skip "tu/tutaj" in Polish either.

[siebenneun]

Do I need the żadnej? Or what does it bring to the sentence?

[JanuszWoro3]

"Tu" and "tutaj" have the same meaning, right?

[Jellei]

Yes. The only bigger difference is that 'tu' sounds rather clumsy at the end of the sentence, and we may not accept it. It's a bit like the emphatic/neutral distinction between some forms of pronouns.