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Posts: Total: 16 / In This Archive: 14 		From: Milan
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CZERESNIA   
12 Feb 2009
Love / Do Polish women date Polish men? [16]

Is this an amalgamation of Cutie and beauty or Booty?

Comprehensive dictionary of useful words strangely missing in all the other dictionaries: urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cootie
CZERESNIA   
11 Feb 2009
Language / The difference between i and a ? [15]

So

i

enumerates things, like the car and the bike and the elephant
but

a

connects phrases, like Jim went by car and Lisa took the elephant?

?
CZERESNIA   
8 Feb 2009
Language / What do you find difficult about learning Polish? [98]

Top List of the hardest languages to learn

Who wrote that list?

I think both finnish and wolof must be more difficult to learn than hungarian, at least wolof, finnish probably shares position with hungarian.
CZERESNIA   
7 Feb 2009
Language / Plural forms 2-4 and =>5 [30]

"Ile palców widzisz?"

2. 10-8 is 2.

At least I know my math.
CZERESNIA   
6 Feb 2009
Life / HUMOROUS POLISH TOASTS [19]

alinka:
4/ " Na druga noge!" (To the second leg!)

or

No to na druga noge. (they drink)

Exactly which leg are they talking about?
CZERESNIA   
6 Feb 2009
Language / Plural forms 2-4 and =>5 [30]

Elssha:
for a non-indicated # you might use palce

That's what I was talking about :)

Thanks I think I got it. The cut off fingers are palce because you don't specify how many, but if you say there are 8 cut off fingers they are palców.

right? like this:
1 palec
2 palce
5 palców
many palce
CZERESNIA   
5 Feb 2009
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

I'm really sorry, i still don't get it.
When would you use palców then, seeing as they're more than 5?
Would they be palcow if not cut off buy still on the hand?

Could somebody please give me 3 simple sentences?

And maybe a link to some grammar page that explains it (I could't find any).

:)
CZERESNIA   
5 Feb 2009
Language / Plural forms 2-4 and =>5 [30]

Thank you Elssha!

but why do the dictionaries give me only palce, and not palców?
CZERESNIA   
5 Feb 2009
Language / Plural forms 2-4 and =>5 [30]

I understand from the Pimsleur course that Polish has different plurals for different amounts of something.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find more info about this.
What are the plural forms called?
Do all words have double plurals or are there exceptions?
Take palec (finger): the online dictionaries give palce as the plural, is that the plural for 5 and more fingers? and how do I find the plural for 2-4 fingers?

one of a million questions...
CZERESNIA   
4 Feb 2009
Language / Polish Language Basic Guide [19]

Janusz I think you're brilliant. thanks for you efforts, also for the alphabet thread.
CZERESNIA   
28 Jan 2009
Language / Familial Terms [6]

very nice list, I'm translating to Swedish right now. But did you forget brother and sister?
edit: and are there no words for doublecousins and halfcousins?
CZERESNIA   
21 Jan 2009
Language / Usage of the word "Na" [17]

Moderator comment: Please check to see that your topic has not already been posted.

Yes, but this is a language thread and languages are best learnt by rubbing it in. It's not "why polish girls are sexier than irish" which seems to be discussed at least once a week in a new thread. Also, I'm new in here, and I think this thread is very interesting, but I would never had the idea myself to search after a post that compares all the na-uses. I will of course eventually read all the thousands of posts that are in here.

with my very best regards
körsbäret
CZERESNIA   
18 Jan 2009
Language / SZCZ and ŚĆ HARD TO EXPLAIN [19]

I noticed the soft sounds ć, ś, and ź were pronounced with the front teeth together

Really?
So when you say cześć do you actually close your teeth at the end? Or is this a trick for foreigners?
CZERESNIA   
17 Jan 2009
Language / Non Multiple Choice Online Tests [10]

42 %!
And I didn't understand a word of it.

I've been doing pimsleur lvl 1 for two months now (tomorrow last lesson nr 30) and while it doesn't give you a great vocabulary, more or less 200 words, maybe it teaches some kind of intuition as to what endings should look like. Sounds a bit stupid...