News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

Actually it will take 25 years to catch Germany. In 1997 Germany was 124% of eu average and Poland was 47. Now it's 111 vs 55. So it's 2% per year. If it stays that way, we will wait 25 years to catch Germany.

News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

mf.gov.pl/dokument.php?const=1&dzial=408&id=42178

News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

This year polish farmers get 75% of that what eu farmers get. It increases 5% every year.

Language / Rok vs. Lat [30]


Rok doesn't have plular form. Lata is a different word, which is only used as plular form of rok. You could use wiosen, or jesieni, instead of lata.

I remember a tv turney, and a question about plular form of rok. Some guy have said "lata", and it was wrong answer, because as I said, rok doesn't have plular form.

Language / Rok vs. Lat [30]


I don't know about these words, but rok doesn't have plular form. That TV turney was "1 z 10", the most intelligent in polish tv.

Language / Plural forms 2-4 and =>5 [30]


Because palce is plular form of palec. For egzample if you would see 8 cutted fingers on the sidewalk you would call them palce, not palcow.

Language / Plural forms 2-4 and =>5 [30]


Look at cinek's #8 post.


That's what I was talking about :)

Language / Plural forms 2-4 and =>5 [30]

Yes, it's correct. Sześć okien.

Travel / Nice place to holiday in the North of Poland? [26]

johnny_ireland - infhotel.pl/sopot/zacisze Prices on this site are outdated. It's 240pln (52 euro) per night for 2 persons in the summer.

Language / Plural forms 2-4 and =>5 [30]


Right.


Wrong :/ many fingers = wiele palców. You use palce when talking about finger in plular form.
8 fingers - 8 palców
many fingers - wiele palców
(just) fingers (doesn't matter how many, cutted off or not :)) - palce.

I won't go to that room, because there are fingers - Nie pójdę do tamtego pokoju, bo tam są palce (there may be 2 fingers in that room, but there may be 8 fingers in that room, or any other number).

Language / Plural forms 2-4 and =>5 [30]


palców.

Language / What do you find difficult about learning Polish? [98]


Polish words are much easier to spell than english words, because you just decombine the pronunciation. Only sz, cz, rz, ch are different. Learn how each letter is pronunced and you will be able to spell words.

Language / What do you find difficult about learning Polish? [98]


Ugór is used some times. It means "abandoned field"

Travel / Going to visit Poland for long period of time - need passport? [25]

This guy is talking like he was never abroad. He wants a polish passport to go to Poland?

Law / Using Allegro in Poland - payment / transfer / rules / fees [18]

BLS - Why you want to know the minimal price? It shouldn't be important to you. It's established for a seller. If next to the price you see "cena minimalna nie została osiągnięta" then it means that the seller made minimal price.

Life / I'm engaged to a girl from Poland. Moving to Poland from the US. [28]

I see a foreigner in a bus once every couple months. So it's normal that it's something different, and I look at him more than on other people. Foreigner in non turistic places in Poland looks like alien.

Life / I'm engaged to a girl from Poland. Moving to Poland from the US. [28]

No geez, but something normal. If you see something strange, unusual, you look at it.

Language / SŁUCHAĆ, or PRZYSŁUCHIWAĆ SIĘ? [53]

słuchać, powtarzać.

Life / City heating system, any ideas on how it works? [15]

The administration of your osiedle decides if the heating is available in the summer. The elektrociepłownia produces heat all year. It's amazing for me that one facility produces hot water for whole big city. In the same time it produces electricity. It's saves some 30% of energy if it would be produced separately.

Life / What's the weather like in Poland? [81]

It's because of the Global Warming. That's why it's so cold :) But seriously July and August could still be hot.

Life / Poor people / street children in Poland? [34]

Only gypsis, which actually are not Poles.

Language / Using państwo and surnames. [8]

LOL. 90% of Poles would say it like that. And I'm one of them. Nie ma państwa Kowalczyków sounds wierd. You can say Nie ma Kowalczyków, or Nie ma państwa Kowalczyk.

Language / Example sentences for different cases. [42]


Ta osoba jest kobietą would be correct. (This person is a woman)

Language / The preposition past 'I walk past the bank every day on my way to school'? [13]

Thre is a difference. You can't use około in the sentence from the first post.

Life / Power cuts in Poland [5]

Hmm last time I hade power cut was about one year ago.

News / The Polish Economy and its future [101]

I wouldn't say that geography is disadvantage of Poland. Look at Spain, or Canada. They also have rich countries only besides them, not round them. And what should Finland say?

I see very bright future for Poland till 2015, because of EU funds, but after that I don't know what will happen. Also Poland makes less debt now, than western countries. That will benefit in the future. I've made a comparison of gdp per capita (prices level corrected) of Poland and Germany. In 1992 Poland had 28% of Germany gdp per capita. 1996 - 34%, 2000 - 40%, 2004 - 43,5%, 2008 - 49,5%, And this year it will be 52,5%. That's not very impressive, but the speed of catching up increased significantly since EU acession. 9 percent points in five years.

jwojcie - Netherlands had -5.1% decline in q2 year over year. -0.9 was quarter over quarter.
epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/2-02092009-BP/EN/2-02092009-BP-EN.PDF

Language / Declension of "-ość" - miłość / zieleń [19]


Not zielenio?
Anyway I remember learning declination names and questions in 3rd grade I think. I was using declination in every sentence, but I didn't even know that it exist, before they made me to learn it in primary school :) My point is that when you are fluent in polish you don't even think, and know which case do you use.

Language / Declension of "-ość" - miłość / zieleń [19]

Mayby it should be "zieleni", but normal people would say "zielenio"

Language / WACEK, BAŚKA, OTHERS? [6]


I think that baśka evolved(?) from word bania. Bania is a different word for głowa (head), because it has similar shape to głowa. Little bania is bańka, and it sounds similar to baśka. Dać komuś z bańki = Dać komus z baśki (hit somebody with your head).

Language / Declension of "-ość" - miłość / zieleń [19]


Now everybody would say zielenio, not in 75 years. You are polish guy and you would say zieleni? Don't kid me. Or you aren't polish, and you know it only from book?