"This man says that he loves you."
Translation:Ten mężczyzna mówi, że cię kocha.
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As I understood from previous lessons, "pan" and "pani" is formal "you". So can it be "że panią kocha"?
Not really. "On" is so redundant here that it actually suggests "John says that Matthew loves you" (or at least looks strange), and "kocha ciebie" seems like you vere stressing 'you, and not Susan'.
Is the word order so important in Polish? Why is not "ten mężczyzna mowi że kocha cię" accepted?
If only you are able to avoid putting a pronoun at the end of the sentence, you should indeed avoid it. You have another place to put "cię" (że cię kocha), so you should use it.
I realize that we are supposed to avoid putting pronouns at the end of the sentence. However, I have not yet been able to figure out which words make it okay to put the pronoun before. Do you know of a place that I could find a more detailed explanation of pronoun usage? (Actually, I'd love a detailed description of sentence structure in general, if you know where I could find that.)
Is there a rule about when one uses cie and ciebie? Is "on cie kocha" the same as "kocham ciebie?"
Well, it's definitely not the same, because the first one is "He loves you" and the second is "I love you".
"cię" is the basic form, the neutral one. "ciebie" is emphatic. So "Kocham cię" is the most common way to say "I love you", and "Kocham ciebie" is like "I don't love John! I love YOU!".
"ciebie" shows some contrast. So for example a short dialogue between a couple can look like: "- Kocham cię. - Ja ciebie też" (I love you too, although you omit the verb and say something like "I you too") or "- Kocham cię. - A ja kocham ciebie." (And I love you).
Thanks very much, Jellei! I have never seen the comparison written in such a clear, colloquial way. The subtleties are so important in every language. I had heard previously that cie and ciebie are pretty interchangeable, and your explanation definitely says otherwise.
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Я все рсвно нихера не поняла, ни почему cię нельзя поставить в конец предложения, ни почему где-то используется cię, а где-то ciebie
Так, спокойно и без ругательств... В польском языке некоторые местоимения имеют краткие и длинные формы. Длинные используются там где:
- на это местоимение падает смысловое ударение
- в предложениях, состоящих из одного слова
- при противопоставлении
- после предлогов
Во всех остальных случаях используется краткая форма. Однако, краткие формы нельзя писать:
- в начале предложения
- в конце предложения, если при этом существует альтернативный вариант порядка слов (то есть, если этого можно избежать).
