"I want to tell you something very important."
Translation:Chcę ci powiedzieć coś bardzo ważnego.
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In such a construction, "coś" takes a form ending with -ego. I think it's neuter Genitive.
Chcę coś wam bardzo wasznego powiedziec - is that wrong? apologies if spelling incorrect
Read this, please: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/27952965
"wam" is equally correct here and it had to be here.
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Isn't "coś" the direct object, placing it right after the verb, and the indirect object "wam" after that? Or am I just making that rule up extrapolating from previous examples?
I think I would need to see more examples. But one sure thing is that we don't want the pronoun "wam" to end up at the end of the sentence - it's like "I want to tell something very important TO YOU".
why is "chce ci mowic cos bardzo waznego" rejected? i mean the singular form "ci" instead of "wam"
"ci" is accepted, in fact it's in the default sentence here. The problem is "mówić". It's an imperfective verb, so it's like "I want to be telling you something important", many times. Technically not wrong, but really strange.
Why wouldn't ciebie be accepted in place of wam? I think I missed something regarding all of the different options for "you" in Polish.
"to tell someone something" needs that "someone" in Dative.
The singular Dative 'you' is "ci", its emphasized version is "tobie". "ciebie" is not Dative.
See the table of all forms: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Polish_pronouns#Second-person_pronouns