Law / Banks making a fotune ..What about the Złoty [11]

The only thing that should be considered more criminal than robbing a bank, is owning a bank.

Language / Polish Present Tense - Please Help Me. [8]

This a very complex question.

There are many different groups of verbs that conjugate differently. Most of these groups have some personal endings in common. Compared to English, Polish verbs are much more irregular.

Here are some common endings of Polish verbs in the present tense. Of course it is a simplification.

ja (I) often ends in -ę. If the infinitive of the verb ends in -ać it often ends in -am.
ty (you singular) -sz
on/ona/ono (he/she/it) often no ending, only stem.
my (we) -my
wy (ýou plural) -cie
oni/one (they) -ą

There are 2 extremly important verbs that don't follow these rules at all, it's być (to be) and mieć (to have). You should learn conjugation of these verbs by heart as soon as possible. See link below.

The best reference is the book 301 Polish Verbs by Janecki.

Here is another list of conjugation of some common Polish verbs:
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Polish/Conjugations_of_common_verbs

You can read more about conjugation of different groups of verbs in this short Polish grammar book.

polish.slavic.pitt.edu/firstyear/nutshell.pdf

And go to the chapter about Verbs, and then to the Present tense.

Genealogy / Two Polish Guys visiting Romania [15]


Yes, and I have actually done it before on this forum as well.


Naprawdę? Znam ich! Mam nadzieję, że ona nie jest w ciąży.

To be a little serious. Good Luck with finding these boys, but I think it will be difficult. At least you're trying, that's good. You have to figure out some smart ways to do it.

Genealogy / Two Polish Guys visiting Romania [15]

I'm a med. student in Poland, but I don't know Lukas and Nikolas.

UK, Ireland / Polish worker's excuse and a vacuum cleaner (UK) [79]

Sounds as a painful method.

Language / Polish Case System [32]

en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Polish/Noun_cases

But honestly speaking, it's very difficult to learn how to use the different cases if you don't know the basic grammatical structures.

Language / Learning to speak Polish options. [17]

If you get a book and no classes, make sure to have an audio CD. If you have friends that you can speak some Polish with it's a great solution of course.

UK, Ireland / Polish worker's excuse and a vacuum cleaner (UK) [79]


Hehe... how many nasty news are there about English, or other, people? There isn't a secret pact to just write sh*t about Poles. English medias have world record in nasty news.

Love / What are your views (or Polish views) on abortion? [102]


There are so many ways of contraception to avoid pregnancy/abortion. Multiple abortions can also decrease fertility (not good for the future). Is she retarded?

Sex is great. But you have to be a little careful because you only have one body. But it's old news that some people don't care about their own, or other people's, health. It's not only abortions. Even very common STDs can make you infertile. And remember that there are some common STDs which there is no cure for.

Language / words overused in Polish language [40]


Oh.. that's a little too much. but just dokładnie is a very useful (haha) word.
And so is właśnie (which is overused as well).

Travel / Visit from Warsaw to Lubin. [7]

I would say that it's best to go by train. There are many trains between Wawa and Lublin every day.

In Poland, train is usually the best option.

Love / Conversation starters / boosters to date a Polish au-pair? [19]

Hehe... would be nice to hear what happened.

Language / Any sweet Polish phrases [255]


Jesteś bardzo przystojny! (you are very handsome)

Language / PARANOJA -- MISUSED IN POLISH? [20]

I think it's common in many languages that you call someone paranoid even if all the diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV are not present.

Language / Dobrze vs Dobry [15]

Don't make it more complicated than it is.

dobrze = adverb (describes a verb)
dobry, dobra, dobre = adjectives (describe a noun)

Australia / "A team will respond to any anti-Polish comments or acts." [16]

Long live freedome of speech! Right?

Love / Polish boys - are they handsome? [46]

It's like asking, is green a beautiful color?

Love / Could our relationship work despite the language barrier? [34]


Here we have the answer. But it doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

News / FEINSTEIN NEW us AMBASSADOR TO POLAND [47]

I'm sure they aren't better or worse because they're Jewish.
I'm also sure that the president nominates people who have competence for such jobs. If not, we will notice that soon.

Love / WHAT TRAITS DO POLISH WOMEN LOOK FOR IN A MAN? [48]


That's exactly how it is. Different people see these things in different ways.

Love / WHAT TRAITS DO POLISH WOMEN LOOK FOR IN A MAN? [48]

What traits do English women look for?
What traits do Swedish women look for?
What traits do Spanish women look for?

Language / declension? Masz mapę gratis? how did mapa become mapę? Thanks [4]

A very simplified, but much easier version:

It's the accusative case. Always with the word mieć (mam, masz, ma etc.), and many other words as well. "The thing one has is associated with the accusative case".

Nouns that normally (which means nominative case) end in -a, end in the accusative case in -ę.

Words that do not end in -a, usually don't change when converted into the accusative case.

This is not always true, but it's a much eaiser rule to learn (to start with).

Life / The best Polish song ever! [23]

Lady Pank - Stacja Warszawa

Life / The best Polish song ever! [23]

Lady Pank - Znowu pada deszcz (rock)

News / 100zl note should be phased out. [20]

I think the 100 zl notes are great in food stores. Many people spend about 100-200 zl there as far as I've seen.


Safer to use your VISA/MasterCard/whatever instead of walking around with several 1000 zl in your pocket.

Language / Share Perfective and Imperfective Polish verbs [105]

The book 301 Polish Verbs by Janecki has a section in the beginning with pretty good explanation of the differences between perfect and imperfect forms of Polish verbs.

Language / Confused about the Polish Imperative [15]

Or to make it easier...

Proszę + infinitive (of verb)

Examples:
Proszę czekać!
Proszę wejść!
Proszę pokazać (gdzie...)!

Very easy! But pretty formal I guess, probably sounds a little strange to say to your friends.

Life / Why do a lot of Polish people stare and why is good personal hygeine shunned? [108]

Then you should shower 2 times a day. But not be surprised if you get bad skin.

Life / Why do a lot of Polish people stare and why is good personal hygeine shunned? [108]

Showering twice a day is not good for your skin. You don't have to study dermatology in med. school to understand that.

Washing you skin too often damages its protective features. And even after washing you skin carefully there are 7-8 million bacterias per square cm of human skin. Because they can also live inside the epidermis, and even if it's extremely superficial it gives the bacteria protection. And when the skin is damaged it is, of course, easier for these smalls bugs to cause infections.

Saying it's good to shower several times a day is just b*llshit from a medical point of view. And how does someones hair (esp. long hair) look if the person washes it twice a day... I think we all know that.