"jesteś" - "you are" - Polish word for your?

Hey there I was just wondering would this be "jesteś" or would that be "you are"?

The context Im thinking of is something like "your father" or something along the lines.

Thanks in advance :)

your, yours - twój
you're - jesteś, jesteście

Ah thanks would "your father" be "twój ojciec"? Or is there some kind of special rule for using it?

Also 'SWÓJ', depending on the sentence:

Zapomniałas twoją gazetę! = You forgot your newspaper. (fem./informal)

Pani zapomniała SWOJĄ gazetę! = You forgot your newspaper. (fem./formal)

Oh man! You change the beginnings of your words too?

Some days I wonder what I have got myself in for hahaha!

Everything hinges on context! There are other times when, f.ex. one says: "Tu jest PANA portefel." = Here is YOUR wallet. (masc./formal) vs. "......PANI " = YOUR wallet. (fem./formal). Rather old-fashioned here would be "PAŃSKI", but this is not used often.

All languages have their particular twists and turns. English is no different from Polish in this regard-:)

"SWÓJ" in my example was reflexive.

I suppose it is :). Its easy to take for granted being a native speaker is and how difficult it maybe for foreign people to learn (referring to both languages).

Also I must admit,Ive avoided the polish grammar in favour of learning useful phrases and words that would help me get by in basic conversation.

Lyzko, you make it too complicated for him. Step by step you know. ;)

I think it's enough (to begin with) that twój (masc), twoja (fem), twoje (neutr) means 'your'. Your father, your ball, your house.

I appreciate both replies but at the moment the latter is what Ive been learning (masc,fem,neut).

Also can I ask,certain words are masculine,feminine or neutar right? Say I was talking about a girl but using a masculine word,would I have to change it?

Thanks for your your patience haha :D

SzwedwPolsce's right though: Step by step! I think I bit you off a little more than you can chew at this point-:) lol

M.

Some words don't ever need to be changed, e.g. 'gość' (guest, visitor, company etc.) referring to both a male as well as a female, just like English.

With verb/adjective agreement, it's tricky though, 'cuz the past tense ALWAYS shifts depending, plus the adjective's gotta agree:

ByłEM zmęczonY. = I was tired. (masc.)
ByłAM zmęczonA. = I was tired. (fem.)
Dziecko by£O zmęczonE. = The child was tired. (neut.)

Yeah I understand that :)

Im just thinking for example "piwo" which Im guessing is the neutar is quite often used as "piwa" regardless of the gender in subject,so thats what had me wonder.

Your statement of 'piwa' as genitive for 'piwo' is A-one correct, only your reasoning is off.
The 'a' in 'piwA' has nothing whatsoever to do with the femininity of the noun in this instance.

You've already seen thus far I'm sure that there's a heck of a lot of ending repetition in Polish cases-:)

Plurals are yet another story. LOL

Sorry, your reasoning's correct. I misunderstood you at first.
Apologies)))))

It depends on the so called grammatical case, but it's still neuter. Piwa is the same word as Piwo, but different gram. case. A noun can never change gender, but it can change its ending depening on the grammatical case.

We can take for example the word herbata wich means tea. There are 6 more commonly used grammatical cases.

nominative: herbata
accusative: herbatę
genitive: herbaty
dative: herbaty
instrumental: herbatą
locative: herbaty

All these forms are neutral gender. The gender can never change.

'Herbata' however is feminine, I thought-:))

Maybe I should check back into that Swedish hospital; I think I'm going nuts. lol

Hahaha.. I must have been too tired. Of course herbata is feminine. But it doesn't really matter because feminine nouns are always feminine as well. It was just to show an example of the relationship between gender and case. And that case can change, but gender can not.

-:) LOL (yaaawwwwwn!)

In this way, Swedish is even more "regular" than English, at least as regards conjugation since nothing ever changes (older or literary forms excepted!):

Jestem
jesteś
jest etc....

cf.

I am
you are
he is

or:

Jag ar vi ar
du ar ni ar
han ar etc... even in the plural

Please keep this thread to polish words only.