"She loves this cat."
Translation:Ona kocha tego kota.
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Take it EASY:
How do you say it in English? "I love he/she?" (wrong...)
or "I (subject) love him/her" (direct object - accusative)?
It is a cat (nominative) - To (jest) kot (kto? co? - Mianownik)
I love the cat (him/her - accusative) - Kocham kota (kogo? co? - Biernik)
Many Polish verbs put the following noun (direct object) in accusative
case, (kogo? co? - Biernik) in affirmative statements. To make it EASY,
the negative statement which requires genitive case (kogo? czego? - Dopełniacz) would need the same word "kota" fo this type of a noun
(Biernik/accusative = Dopełniacz/genitive):
She loves this cat - Kocha tego kota (Biernik/accusative)
She does not love this cat - Nie kocha tego kota (Dopełniacz/genitive)
There aren't any articles in Polish, ten is a demonstrative pronoun, which corresponds to this/that in English. Like most other parts of speech, it's inflected for gender, number and case.
Declension tables for ten & tamten
It this sentence, tego is singular masculine animate accusative.
I didn't remember about it, but it is actually tought (in the Tips section) in a previous lesson (Demonstratives):
It's accusative. But "kot" is masculine animate (it is an animal), and animate masculine nouns have singular accusative=singular genitive.
Uwiebia?? Can you please explain this word to me as it was listed as a possible answer to love's, kocha.
uwielbiać = adore, worship, idolize, admire, be wild about somebody, love.
This verb is not taught in the current Polish for English course.
That is correct.
The -ę ending is usually the Accusative ending for feminine nouns, but "mężczyzna" looks like a feminine noun, despite being masculine.