Polish filler words?

English has all kinds of these: er, um, ah, the classic 'well', and all kinds of: Let me see,
I'd say, It seems to me and the polticians' favourite at pressers: 'I'm glad you asked' (whilst thinking to himself: 'You dirty bastard!').

What are some of the better-known non-rude Polish ones?

yyy; aha; oh; ale,ale,ale; cóż; mi się :-)

eee

nooo

normalnie

I HATE when people go 'yyyyy' and 'eeeee'

The most common by far is 'po prostu' ;) When I listen to Polish females on talk shows, they can chalk up 30 in the space of a few mins.

tak...?
i ten...

"kurwa" is one of the most common and universal:)

I used to have such problem ;)

My mum used to tell me that I said 'basically' too much. Sometimes you just aren't aware until someone tells you about it.

Ten is very common too. Um, wiesz, no, ten.... :)

What about:
Jak by tu powiedzieć...
Powiem tak...
Jak na stan dzisiejszy...
To zależy...
W pewnym sensie...
I tak, i nie...
Można tak do tego podejść, ale...
Owszem, ale
Naturalnie...
Oczywiście...
Ma się rozumieć...
O to się rozchodzi, że

There must be many other ways of filling in lulls and/or stalling for time in Polish.
We all know the vulgarities scumbags (even the suit and tie-wearing ones) use, but that is the stuff of another thread.

Lol. Was that Monty Python sketch based on you then? Well basically I think it was.

Po Prostu - is that basically then? Literally its simply right?

Basically, yeah :)

No, właśnie, dooookładnie, ooooo, uuuuuu, masakra (without any real meaning) etc.

paranoja (spelling?) is also used to express a negative feeling, but has nothing to do with being paranoid (excessively anxious and apprehensive)....
BTW do you perceive the recent overuse of dokładnie as a carbon-copy translation of exactly, precisely, quite?

"Paranoja" is pretty specific, and very close to "insane" (about a situation) in colloquial American usage.

They said I have to X, it's insane.

Mówią, że muszę X - paranoja.

What about 'o'? (sp?) It's a really short, almost explosive sound. I hear it a lot, but it doesn't seem to mean anything.

And on the English side, you forgot "y'know?"

Some people have an obsession with "nie?", used not as a question tag but as a filler in neuter intonation a couple of times per sentence.

Other people instead use the real question tag "prawda?", with stress and unusually long duration on the last syllable.

Since I've been in Poland, I have become completely obsessed with the word "no". I say it instinctively (incorrectly, at a guess) in almost every situation; 'Well' ' oops' 'pardon?' 'hey', so far my attempts to squeeze it into any given phrase haven't brought me too much negative attention, but there's plenty of time yet.

Probably deserves its own thread, but my absolute favourite thing is the string of non-words used to end a telephone call.
'no hej' being the stock - root. elaborated with mad rapid fire combinations of:
pa
pa pa
no to pa
no to hej
sie ma hej! itd

I've heard some with ludicrously long strings fired out like valedictory machine gun volleys.
siemanko notohej pa.czesc.pa! hej!

it was 'co nie' in my youth times, but yes already then it tended to evolve into just 'nie'

there is 'ten' - "no i ten, no, i on wtedy, ten, no poszedł do garażu, i wyciągnął ten, tego, no - kompresor? - no coś takiego w każdym razie, takie z kablem i rurkami ;)"

'ten' is used mostly when you seek words - 'nie' tends to be used when someone speaks fast - it seems such a short stop so that the listeners can actually follow phrases and sentences - it also marks that the speaker puts some emotional emphasis on what s/he is speaking

'po prostu' is very much like 'basically' in English

Modern
Słuuchaj!
"Słuuchaj! Wczoraj po szkole spotkałam Aśkę i słuuchaj! co ona mi naopowiedziała!"

No raczej!
Bo wiesz, ...
Bo ja, proszę ciebie, ...
Prawdę mówiąc, ...
Generalnie rzecz biorąc, ...

Absolutnie, ..
W rzeczy samej, ..
Koniec świata, ...

Prawda?
Nieprawda?
Wiesz? (Wiesz? Nie wiem. :-))
Ten, tego, słowem... (Response: Który? Którego?)
Widzisz? (- widzisz? - nie widzę.- no, widzisz!(

From Marxist Era
właśnie, towarzysze, właśnie

From not so distant past
waśnie, waśnie (should be "właśnie")
panie ten, tego
uczciwszy uszy
uczciwszy uszy, upraszam pardonu

Encyklopdia staropolska, przysłowia osobiste - Zygmunt Gloger
pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyklopedia_staropolska/Przysłowia_osobiste


Hetman Stanisław Potocki ( - 1667) - By overusing Latin expression "re vera" (verily, truly), he became known as Stanisław "Rewera" Potocki

In the same manner:
Karol Radziwiłł, wojewoda wileński (1744 - 1790) - "Panie kochanku"
Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł, father of "Panie Kochanku" - "Rybeńko".
Jan Klemens Branicki, Great Crown Hetman - (1689-1771) - "Moja panno"


Uczciwszy uszy
Panie dobrodzieju
Ale, ale
Jak się zowie
Tandem tedy
Mospanie
Mościwy panie
Mopanie
Mosembeju
Mosztordzieju

Fragments from "Revenge" by Aleksander Fredro. Wise guy Cześnik dictates a letter to Dyndalski:
Bardzo proszę ... mocium panie ...
Mocium panie ... me wezwanie...
Mocium panie ... wziąć w sposobie,
Jako ufność ku osobie...

No, tylko, przecież, ależ are pretty common particles in Polish.

No, co słychać? = Well/So, what's up?

Tylko ostrożnie, Mieszku! = Just be careful there, Mitch!

To przecież niełatwie, samo uczyć się angielskiego. = That's not easy though, to learn English all by yourself.

Czy mogę wejść? - Ależ tak! = May I come in? Why sure!

To add what I found recently:

Powodzenia hej and do zobaczenia hej when saying goodbye. Could I say do usłyszenia hej?

if you have any ambition at all you'll be able to fit them all in a rapid fire valediction 'masakra' topped off with a final 'pa' or 'cześć" and kicked off with a random "no, to", then hang up.

:)