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- "Ja nie znam tego psa."
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Polish and English words have different distance. Polish has ten, ten ,tamten English has this, that that
About why here are some explanations:
https://www.duolingo.com/comment/13490111$comment_id=13492303 https://www.duolingo.com/comment/14767501$comment_id=14771163
So, do noun endings after negated verbs only noticeably change with feminine nouns?
Ex: Koszulę --- Koszuli,
Psa ---- Psa
What you have here, is that you had a sentence that took Accusative, and then after negating, it takes Genitive. It is very common, but if a different case is negated, the case just stays. Negated Genitive is Genitive, negated Instrumental is Instrumental, etc.
I think masculine animate nouns have (mostly) an identical Genitive and Accusative form, so does masculine personal plural, but mostly it's different.
The audio is bad, it shouldn't sound like that. Polish doesn't really surprise with its pronunciation, it's almost always obvious from how it's written.
Thanks for clearing that up... I was really beginning to wonder if I was going crazy hearing all the "psa"s and "psy"s on here sounding like [psʔa] and [psʔɨ]
what does genitive mean? All the questions I have about this topic are answered in the comments of them but all the answers require knowing what genitive means so I'm lost
The system rejected "i do not know this dog". Normally it does not care if I leave out punctuation and don't capitalize. I would upload a screen snap shot showing that's how I entered it if I could. Also in this module it reject "don't" and wanted "do not". Normally it accepts that.
Both versions are possible:
- Nie znam tego psa - neutral statement
- Ja nie znam tego psa - emphasis on the pronoun.
I can't be the only person to think this doesn't sound like what she is saying? There is an S sound between Ja & Nie.
I don't hear it. But then there's the issue with "psa" being pronounced like "ps-a" by the female voice, which is probably the worst pronunciation problem in this course. I disabled the audio exercises.
Both 'tego' and 'tej' are genitive, however, the latter doesn't fit here because it's a feminine pronoun, but 'pies' is masculine.
