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SzwedwPolsce   
30 May 2010
Language / The Polish accusative case [32]

I understand that for masculine Animate ending is -a.
However, I read sometimes also the ending -a when the
noun is not animate.

Yes. All rules have exceptions.

But the rule is for masculine accusative, as you say;
1. masculine Animate ending is -a
2. masculine inanimate = no ending

"From what I have learnt, masculine names of fruits, vegetables, vehicles, currencies, games, dances, tobaccoes and technologies get the declension of animate masculine at the biernik case."

Maybe we can call this a rule of the exceptions.

Gram w tenisa - I'm playing tennis

"Grać w..." is a classic exception. In this construction "all" masculine nouns take -a ending.
SzwedwPolsce   
29 May 2010
Life / Help...any Polish remedies for hives? [17]

Get rid of the trigger, is always to best treatment.

Prophylactic treatment with antihistamine every day. It's not dangerous. It's important that you don't wait until the hives already have developed.

If you take the antihistamine when the hives have already started to develop, it's less effective. You should start before that moment. That's why prophylactic treatment is good if you have problems with this often.

But you should eat as little steroids as possible. It has several bad effects on the body. E.g. it suppresses your immune system.

what are hives exactly....????

Urticaria and Angioedema
SzwedwPolsce   
26 May 2010
Love / Do the Polish girls like foreign boyfriends or they just prefer local boys? [34]

F*ucking polish girls who just want to meet with their local boys and they can't even make an effort to know different boys, different cultures, differents countries.

It's their choice. Everybody has the right to choose.

But there are more and more relationships with foreigners as well. More Polish girls work abroad etc.

However, there are not many foreigners in most parts of Poland.
SzwedwPolsce   
25 May 2010
Love / Are Polish men sexist? [53]

I've heard Polish men are very sexist

Do you think all Polish men are the same? I hope you have higher intelligence than that.
SzwedwPolsce   
25 May 2010
Life / POLISH TEENAGERS TURN TO PROSTITUTION... [77]

Some youth today don't even charge. I have heard it called "friends, with benefits".

It's something completely different.
SzwedwPolsce   
24 May 2010
News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]

1. A person who stands still is very easy to shoot in the thigh.
2. A aggressive person who is moving all the time, is extremely difficult to shoot in the thigh.

As I said, in situation nr 2 it's extremely common to hit the abdomen, even if you aim at the thigh.

Shooting a moving person in leg below the knee is almost impossible.
SzwedwPolsce   
24 May 2010
News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]

i know there re other places he could have shot e.g in the leg to stop the assault

It's almost impossible to aim at the leg when a person is aggressive, because that person is constantly moving his body.

Even if he aimed at the thigh, the object moves all the time, and a hit in the abdomen is extremely common.
SzwedwPolsce   
21 May 2010
Language / Optimal word order in: Czy dobrze się wczoraj bawiłaś? [22]

Word order sometimes drives me nuts at the moment!

Yeah, you can't learn word order from a book. Except from the most basic things. Like, never place się in the end of a sentence with more than 2 words.

Word order competence requires experience. I feel I get it more and more. But you need to be observant when you read or listen to native speakers.

Polish is actually my first language since both my parents are poles and I grew up speaking it. But I've been living in Sweden since birth and nowadays I concider Swedish to be my native language.

Nice with bilingual persons. :)
SzwedwPolsce   
7 May 2010
Language / How many tenses can be used for "pojechac" [24]

Perhaps then here 'determinate' (iść)/'indeterminate' (pójść) vs. 'iterative' (chodzić)

I think most grammar books would say:

iść - determinate imperfect
pójść - determinate perfect
chodzić - indeterminate imperfect

But pójść is not extremely important. You can express future with iść as well (jutro idziemy do kina).
SzwedwPolsce   
7 May 2010
Language / z, ze and verbs - Genitive [11]

Ze is only used when z would make a difficult combination with the first letters of the next word.
They mean exactly the same, and behave the same grammatically.

It's the same with w and we. To make the next word easier to pronounce.

---------------------------------------------------

Z (and ze) governs genitive when it means of and from. It governs instrumental when it means with.

On jest z Polski. <---> He's from Poland. (gen.)
Mieszkam z moim bratem. <---> I live with my brother. (instr.)
SzwedwPolsce   
5 May 2010
Genealogy / Wojtowa Poland [6]

There are several villages in Poland with this name.
SzwedwPolsce   
3 May 2010
Language / Distinguishing between boy/boyfriend/......girl/girlfriend in polish [14]

Koleżanka = girlfriend ( romantic interest )

No. Koleżanka is a female colleague, or a female (not very close) friend. It never corresponds to the English word girlfriend (sth romantic).

przyjaciol /ka = VERY good friend sometimes known a finace / e

Yes, it refers to really close friends. Your few best friends.
SzwedwPolsce   
2 May 2010
Language / "Idę do kolegi." - Polish prepositions/and translation [17]

Idę do kolegi.

why drop wiedzic.......i think thats how you spell to see in polish

Idę = I go
do = to
kolegi = friend (not close friend)/colleague.

You don't say "I go to friend" in English. But it's easy to understand what it means.
SzwedwPolsce   
21 Apr 2010
Language / Future tense with bawić się [34]

Baw się dobrze dziś wieczorem!

Is this the best expression, or is there any other expression that sounds more natural?
SzwedwPolsce   
13 Apr 2010
Travel / Sopot Music Festival [9]

He probably means Sopot International Song Festival.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopot_International_Song_Festival
SzwedwPolsce   
13 Apr 2010
Off-Topic / An English Version of Gadu-Gadu? [105]

You only have to learn like 20 words to use basic features of GG. You can learn that it in an hour.
SzwedwPolsce   
7 Apr 2010
Work / Polish MD degree; is it the same as MMed? [5]

If you gradute from Medical School (kierunek lekarski) you can get license to work as a doctor in all EU-countries, and after USMLE (of course) in the U.S. too.