Language / Nominative (Mianownik) vs Accusative (Biernik)? [17]


They ask you to simply ennumerate four objects, so I'd go with the Nominative.
Alternatively, you could write a full sentence: widzę lustro, wannę, szczoteczkę do zębów - and then the nouns need to be declined.


How many points did you get for this part? Kąpiel is wrong, toaleta is doubtful at best, but szczoteczka do zębów is correct and lustra could also be ok if you have got more than one in your bathroom (Nom. pl.)

Law / Rights of a consumer when dealing with faulty goods in Poland? [65]


I was checked once at Rossmann - spent too much time at the mascara stall. A voucher, you say? Hm...
I asked them if they would apologise if I'm clear, and they did. Not a nice experience though.


A suspicion of theft is enough. They may ask you to take everything out of your bag, pockets etc. but they can't touch you. If you refuse, they call the police. I don't think the police can search you without a prosecutor's order, but they can take you to the police station to further clear the matter.

Law / Rights of a consumer when dealing with faulty goods in Poland? [65]

From my experience, LeRoi Merlin are good (did I spell it right?). Media Markt are absolutely worst.
With electrical/electronic items, it's always wiser to buy them in smaller shops, they care about the customer more.

Love / Do Polish girls like a guy to kiss them on the first date? [13]


google Kaliningrad :)

News / What Poland can't do right [113]

And it took you four years to notice this? Congratulations.

Language / "to believe is to see?" - Getting a Tattoo in Polish and Want Proper Grammar! [30]

widać is not a verb, it means "can be seen", more or less. The verb you need is widzieć, as has already been stated above.

Language / Ł -- English double-u or hard L sound? [30]


You beat me to it. Also, sometimes you can hear it in old editions of Polska Kronika Filmowa, coming from the 1950-s or 60-s, but that's about it.

Po polsku / Jak wryty. Co to znaczy? [6]

Jak wryty - zupełnie nieruchomy, jak wmurowany albo wkopany w ziemię.
Wryć tutaj znaczy mniej więcej to samo co wbić, wkopać, na przykład słupek w ziemię.

Cats, pisz więcej po polsku :)

UK, Ireland / First proper "Polish" School in the UK - The Next Stage of Ghettoisation [283]


Do you really mean to say that it's Kurds who sell all the ogórki and biały ser in the UK? lol
Then what is the Hudson guy about?

Life / Where to buy inexpensive furniture in Poland? [5]

Try JYSK, there are a couple of them in town.
There are also a few shops that carry relatively inexpensive pinewood furniture.
Once you're here and know exactly what you want, I might be able to suggest where to look.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


like hamsters :)

Now I remember the net below the machinery; when you stand down there, it's over your head.


A shot from the hip: Oliwa?

UK, Ireland / First proper "Polish" School in the UK - The Next Stage of Ghettoisation [283]

IMO Hudsonhicks used to be an owner of a corner shop which has since gone off business due to multitude of Polski Skleps in the neighbourhood.

That's my opinion after reading about a gazillion of his threads where the Polski Skleps seem to be his main target.
Well, Hudson, that's already been revenged: lots of Polish corner shops owners have gone bankrupt after Tesco or similar opened in their neighbourhood.
But wait... they might have been the same ones who later went to UK and opened new businesses there...

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Is it part of the Gdańsk Crane - something to do with lifting cargo off the ships?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Pawian, you must be getting old or something. We've already seen the picture with the ostrich egg ;)

Life / Pole vs foreigner abroad [2]

That's Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Sexual needs are at the very bottom - they come first. After these have been satisfied, the needs for resources and property come next.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

I feel your pain, my mother has a cherry tree near her balcony - near, but still 3 meters too far :)

Travel / Kantor and using credit cards in Poland [12]


There are casinos in every bigger city and yes, they should take credit cards so it might be a plausible option. But I'm not much of a casino-goer so wait till somebody more wordly confirms it.

The simplest way would be just to bring some cash or a debit card with you, but I guess that for some reason it's not an option.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Thank you, sir :) I should have noticed the reflection of the plane.

Travel / A week in Gdansk - recommendations? [14]

Have a look at this thread: My holiday, Gdansk or Kaunus, Lithuania? Help me decide!

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


I think it's a light on the pavement. I'm not sure but I seem to remember such lights near the Neptune fountain?

UK, Ireland / First proper "Polish" School in the UK - The Next Stage of Ghettoisation [283]

No, it's Russian!
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenit_(aparat_fotograficzny)
I've still got one buried somewhere in the closet. It certainly did the job.

UK, Ireland / First proper "Polish" School in the UK - The Next Stage of Ghettoisation [283]

Put a Zenit label over the Canon logo and you'll get higher benefits.

Travel / Kantor and using credit cards in Poland [12]


And pay the premium for taking cash out, if it's a credit card and not a debit one.


Well, we don't know what currency the OP wants to get.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


St. Brygida church in Gdańsk, the parish of the late Prelate Henryk Jankowski, a Solidarity chaplain, businessman and wine conoisseur, who intended to build a new main altar made of 2,5 tons of amber.

The copy of Our Lady from Częstochowa and the eagle are the only two elements which had been completed before Jankowski ran out of funds.

There are more decorations inside which could serve as prime examples of patriotic cheesiness. Anyway, I enjoyed it immensely ;)

UK, Ireland / First proper "Polish" School in the UK - The Next Stage of Ghettoisation [283]


Will you still be posting pictures when you emigrate? Provided, of course, that the benefits allow you to buy a camera.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


That's a mere red herring. The church in Hel was a much closer shot ;)

Travel / Kantor and using credit cards in Poland [12]

To the OP: I've never seen anybody use a credit card in a kantor, but I'm not sure.
One thing you can do with a credit card is to take some PLN out of it in an ATM and then go to kantor or a bank and exchange it to another currency, but it won't be the best deal.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Ha, ha! I know what it is, but I'll keep quiet for now.


That's an understatement ;) And no, it's not Warsaw. Pawian has recently visited the seaside.

History / 'If the Warsaw uprising were today... ' -Interesting question I heard today [14]

After 5 years of living in an occupied town, when enemy soldiers deprive you of everything, normal life, freedom, the right to education, make you an Untermensch and a blue collar worker at best, impose a curfew and ratio the food, when your life is in danger every single day, you can get shot at every corner and your family can be taken to Auschwitz for no reason at all - yes, I think even the BMW-Hillfiger metrosexual would go and fight. There's just so much one can take. That's why the uprising was, sadly, unevitable. It wasn't fighting for patriotic ideas and symbols as much as for the dignity and basic human rights.

Language / Where is that "something" that makes others think you are really good in language [141]


more or less. it comes from German (wie heist er - what's its name) and is used mostly for mechanical parts you can't name otherwise.


you lost me here. what's the *mweeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh*? Poles usually say "yyyyyyyy", "eeeeeeeeee", "mmmmmm" or "aaaaaaaaaaa".