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Yes, it's so interesting how sometimes the entire sentence in Polish sounds exactly like Russian or vice versa. Я Русский если что)
Może być also means 'maybe' 'perhaps' and the translation as " It might not be the truth" should surely also be acceptable-może być?
Here, the negated word is "może". So it really has to mean "cannot". For your sentence, you'd have to negate "być". "To może nie być prawda".
English translation comes off as awkward, It would be more correct to say: "This cannot be true".
If it's a noun, then shouldn't be in instrumental (prawdą) as it follows "być"?
Большое спасибо! Yes, I realised that Jellei had already answered this elsewhere, but by the time I realised it, I had already closed this page (and no longer had its URL).
I have to say that "To nie może być prawdą!" sounds fine to me, but I don't know if it's actually correct. Generally, va-diim's rule is right.
I wonder if it is a case of distance between the "to" and the "prawd{a¦ą}. I've heard people, who wouldn't dream of saying "He took I to the cinema last night", nevertheless can quite happily say "He took my sister and I to the cinema last night" (Instead of "my sister and me", obviously).
Personally, I cringe :-) .
