"Give it to him, not me."
Translation:यह उसे दो, मुझे नहीं।
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I am not a native speaker but I think your sentence is correct, with the only difference being slight abbreviation:
"Give to him, not me" instead of "Give IT to him, not me."
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Native speaker here
While you are technically correct...
Hindi is a very contextual language. Often the subject or the object can be deciphered from the context or through the various verb forms and don't need to be mentioned to make the sentence grammatically correct.
So, depending on the context
It is alright to say "उसे दो, मुझे नहीं"
But sometimes, it may become important to specify which object you are talking about
Say, you are dividing candy among 3 friends. And you don't like the coconut one, but your 'friend 1' loves it. Now suppose, 'friend 2' is doing the distribution and they pick up the coconut candy.
In that case you will want to emphasize on the specific treat saying यह उसे दो, मुझे नहीं|
I hope this helps a little
उसे is him/her/that similar to the objective form of he/she/it Whereas उससे means by him/her/that or from him/her/that or with him/her/that (से is more like a preposition)
If you didn't shorten to just 'not me', could you also say मुझे मत दो? or would you need to refer to the object ('it' from first part of sentence) something like मुझे का मत दो?
Yes, and the object would be inferred.
If you did want to include the object though, it would have to be something like 'मुझे इसे मत दो'.
Languages don't all have one-to-one mappings for vocabulary; यह means, as I understand it, 'near thing' vs. वह 'far thing'. So yes it can mean 'this', but also 'it', in English those are used differently, but Hindi happens to have the same word for both as long as the thing is 'near'.
Why was वह उसे दो, मुझे नहीं। not accepted? Why is यह a better 'it' than वह?
No. It should have been accepted. You can report if you see the sentence again.
The choice between यह and वह is very context dependent. You use the former for something you consider 'near' and the latter for something you consider 'far away' (either literally metaphorically. As such, 'it' 'he' and 'she' can be translated as both.
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Can anyone help me? What's the difference between usse use and uske? I think we can use and uske instead of each other. Am I right?
उससे - वह+से - roughly means 'from him'/'from her'
उसे - वह+को - roughly means 'to him'/'to her'
उसके - वह+के - roughly means 'his'/'her'
उसे has an alternate form उसको and they can be used interchangeably.
मुझे is मैं+को and roughly means 'to me'.
मुझ on its own does not mean anything. It's just that it is the root word for many forms of मैं.