News / Can Poland expect similar bomb attacks as in Moscow? [85]


So you say that USA is also in alliance with Islamic league?

Remember that USA are bombing several Islamic countries.

Love / How could I change her opinion about me? [60]


Does the same thing happen for you only with Polish girls?

Maybe you seem to be too interested, so the whole situation feels exaggerated. A big common mistake. There must be a balance.


There is nothing more you can do.

If someone really says she doesn't want any contact with you, it must be accepted. Or else it's a pathological behavior.

Language / Optimal word order in: Czy dobrze się wczoraj bawiłaś? [22]

Thanks again.

Language / Optimal word order in: Czy dobrze się wczoraj bawiłaś? [22]


Do you think this option sounds as natural as the other ones?

Language / Optimal word order in: Czy dobrze się wczoraj bawiłaś? [22]

Thanks everyone!

And it's difficult to say no to a beer. ;)


Sooner or later I will most likely be there. I will tell you. :)

Language / średniozaawansowany prodręcznik do nauki polskiego [8]

I recommend Polish in 4 Weeks Level 2.

Language / Learning Polish, good for beginners? [29]


Taking some lessons is a good idea. I recommend that. A few lessons to get started on pronunciation and basic grammatical structures.

But many people would be surprised if they know how much you can learn on your own. If you have basic knowledge about the language and its structures.

Language / The Plural of Zloty? [46]


It means Gold and Silver.

Language / Learning Polish, good for beginners? [29]


Not true. If you have good basic knowledge of general linguistics and get a good course book you can be fine.

But you need some Poles to practice conversation skills with.

Language / Learning Polish, good for beginners? [29]

I recommend

Polish in 4 weeks Level 1 (Kowalska) and 301 Polish Verbs (with conjugation tables).

There are so many other books that have really bad structure. And they will just confuse you.

Language / Learning Polish, good for beginners? [29]

Polish is very difficult in the beginning. You must learn completely new linguistic structures. When you know them it's much easier to learn the rest.

Language / is it stll jeden [33]

You should think about how much of my time and energy I have given to you.

Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]

I don't know what all this has to do with the topic of this thread.

But if you move to a country you should learn the language, at least so you can have basic conversations.

Language / is it stll jeden [33]

That is how you thank me for helping you? I'm shocked!!! Your parents didn't tell you how to behave at all?

Why do you think almost no other people answer your questions here? Think about that.

Language / is it stll jeden [33]


No. As I said, Polish never has questions with the structure "How Do you...?" translated as "jak czy pan".

"How do you...?" in the form you are asking about are always impersonal in Polish. It means you never use Pan, Pani, Ty. You only use them if you ask a specific person what he is doing. Now you are asking in general how people are doing/saying/asking something. It's 2 completely different things.

We already told you how to say the sentences we asked us about. Forget about "Jak czy Pan".
You make things more difficult than they are.

Summary

Jak powiedzieć X?

Jak to się mowi?

Jak jest po polsku X?

Jak zapytać o X?

UK, Ireland / i used to work with a lot of polish door stewards who were all good friends [22]

Obviously some of them do it.

History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]


Yes. And the location of Poland was strategically important for Germany. Between Soviet and Germany.

Language / is it stll jeden [33]


Yes. Sometimes you can use that.

For example:
Czy Pan lubi piwo? (Do you like beer?) Formal expression.


No. This construction is not used in Polish. In English it would be like: "Do you how ask". It doesn't make any sense at all.

In this case you use a so called impersonal expression. For example: "Jak zapytać (o)..." = How do you ask (about)...".

Language / is it stll jeden [33]

There are different structure of questions in PL and ENG.

In ENG you very often use Do+verb in all kind of questions. E.g. Do you like coffe? It has nothing to do with doing/making something.

In PL you almost always omit this. You (almost) only use robić when it's about making/creating something.

So it's a very big difference between the English use of Do and the Polish use of (z)robić.


To make it even more clear. You can never write robi in this kind of construction.

frd is correct


Or you can also say:

Jak to się mowi? (how do you say it?)

Jak jest po polsku "the word/sentence in English"? (How is in Polish "XXXXX"?)

Love / What are the most popular ethnicities for Polish women [90]


I would also say that > 95% of Polish women are married to Polish men.

But we should notice that there are almost only Polish men in Poland.

Life / Your favourite Polish female-singer [name and YT link] [17]

It's difficult. But this is one of the best voices. She can sing almost every kind of song.

This is a duet, but listen from 0:47.

Ania Wyszkoni

Language / The finer points of Polish grammar - 1 (podróżni) [22]


Hehe... I don't have a clue. And to be honest, it's not very important.

Love / I don't know if she's married and I don't speak Polish - help me romantic folks [55]



That it's impossible to ask, "how do Polish girls think?". Because there are so many different personalities. Just as in all other countries.

Language / is it stll jeden [33]


Literary it means "I would like I like one". No one would understand.

In Polish you usually use the noun also in these constructions. Not only "one".

Poproszę jedną kawę. (fem)
Poproszę jedno piwo. (neutr)
Poproszę jeden tort. (masc)

It's normal accusative case, and jeden/jedno/jedna is declined as an adjective.

Love / How to turn a No into a Yes (she invited me to Poland to meet her) [30]

The only thing you can do is to be passive and let her make the next move.

It takes 2 to tango you know. And you have showed much more interest in a relationship than she has. It must be a balance, or else you don't have a chance.

Love / I don't know if she's married and I don't speak Polish - help me romantic folks [55]

Even if you ask something in Polish, you will probably not understand the answer. Then you need to study some Polish before.

If she works in England, I guess she will be able to understand some simple sentences in English. I'd go for that in the beginning.

Language / Czego, Czemu, Co, Kto, Jak, Dlaczego? [64]

You can say that. There are many non-living nouns ending in -a. So there are many exceptions. For example, non-living things you can eat often end in -a.

Language / Czego, Czemu, Co, Kto, Jak, Dlaczego? [64]


gościa


It's the opposite I'd say. Most living masculine nouns (gen. sing.) end in -a. I'd guess it's > 80%. (chłopaka, studenta, psa, kota, gościa etc.)

When it comes to non-living nouns (a much bigger group) it's more difficult. But the majority of words here end in -u.

Language / is it stll jeden [33]

I quoted the wrong person, sorry.