Language / seen / saw usage [18]

i am quite familiar with the endings, but in my effortbto tranlate what i want to say, from english to polish i forget them often, and to a large degree that is what frustrates me, i know them but fail to use them when i translate. and also when i converse. i often wonder what do i sound like to a pole.

i think on a scale of 1..10 my polish is about 4.5

thanks to all you guys
chaza

Language / seen / saw usage [18]

thank folks, i have been told before, but in my frustration i keep asking myself the same questions forgetting your answers before, my apologies, one day the penny will drop.

with my previous question, about did you see that movie, the other verb that comes into play is mayber obserwować

chaza

Language / seen / saw usage [18]

i understand that seanus, but my frustration is being undertsood. its difficuklt enough, i think my polish is gettinmg better, at least my cousin in torun says so, but do want to get a handle on these concepts, if its not perfect, i at least wantto be undertsood.

chaza

Language / seen / saw usage [18]

i still seem to having dificulty in the word order, especially when i want to ask a question like the above, i am still grapling with the czy concept. i think i have to say the question to myself before i add the czy. i.e

you see fred. then add the czy to mean have you seen fred.

does that indecate i'm getting there

chaza

Language / seen / saw usage [18]

so my only mistake was using zobczyć and not zobaczyłeś.

chaza

Language / seen / saw usage [18]

what should i have said then. if i wanted to say 'have you seen fred today'

chaza

Language / seen / saw usage [18]

but im i right about the concept of seen

Language / because - what are the diferences between "bo" and "ponieważ" [10]

thanks

chaza

Language / because - what are the diferences between "bo" and "ponieważ" [10]

would i be ok if i used either of them in my speach and what about gdyż

chaza

Language / "do I" usage in a question? [50]

thanks undertsood

chaza

Language / "do I" usage in a question? [50]

im still not clear, i thought if i wanted to ask a question i would use czy, so; chcesz piwo, would be czy chcesz piwo. you say robi nie doesnt mean anythying, i undertsood that to mean 'i do not'

i have visited poland two weeks ago, do the suffixes uję, esz, ect apply to most words, i wanted to say 'i miss you both' so i would say' tęsknuję oboje' i have upto now been saying' tęsknota cię'

thanks

chaza

Language / "do I" usage in a question? [50]

i have been reading some polish text, ant they have used the words,' nie chce' for don't. i thought it was ' robi nie' an explanation please.

chaza

Language / which 'if' (jeśli, gdyż or gdyby) use in conversation? [13]

understood

thanks

chaza

Language / which 'if' (jeśli, gdyż or gdyby) use in conversation? [13]

would i be far wrong if i got them mixed up, would it alter the sentence much.

chaza

Language / which 'if' (jeśli, gdyż or gdyby) use in conversation? [13]

so how does gdyź or gdyby fit then, in what context wold i use them.

chaza

History / In Memory of victims, who had their lives cruelly taken at Treblinka Death Camp in Poland [104]

i think its wonderful, and we should never forget what happened at these places. thank you for sharing them.

chaza

Genealogy / Does anyone have any 1925 to 1945 images of Grudziadz [10]

thank they were great

chaza

Genealogy / Does anyone have any 1925 to 1945 images of Grudziadz [10]

thanks for them, they are great, do you have any of grudziadz railway station, and maybe dragacz station.

thanks

chaza

Language / may/might (expression) [25]

yes, one of the liittle issues i have is getting my mouth to say all the strange sounds, like szcs, prze.... and stuff

but im getting there

Language / may/might (expression) [25]

i just chjecked my book and the word is móc/ potrafić

Language / may/might (expression) [25]

so you can see where i am coming from, at the end of the day, as long as my polish friends can understand what i want to say, thats the job done. all the rest will fall into place as it comes.

i write better polish then i do speaking it.

chaza

Language / may/might (expression) [25]

thanks sean
i have been learning polish for 14mnth, i can hold a conversation now, but there are still some little bits of confusion like this one. on the whole i think i'm doing good. but every bit helps as they say.

word order is my biggest battle right now, but the fight goes on.

thanks

chaza

Language / may/might (expression) [25]

i was just looking at my book 301 verbs, and i see mogę, moźe, they both mean , can, may, able.

i suspect i may have missed some point here.

chaza

Language / may/might (expression) [25]

thanks sean
its a great help

chaz

Language / may/might (expression) [25]

thanks for that, the word i thought it was is 'moć'
but does the word moźe also mean ' maybe' i suppose the person you are talking to will know which word i mean by the context of the conversation.

thanks

chaza