in Polish slang, what is the difference between Siema and Siemka?

I'm learning Polish and I talk to polish friends online, i'm just wondering what context to use Siema and Siemka in.

One of my polish friends said 'siemka' is diminutive or something, but i dont know what that means :S haha

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yes siemka is a dimunitive of siema. it makes it sound more 'cute'. its like my name Justyna, if you say Justynka it is a nicer way of saying it. just like calling a guy called George Georgie. Understand? lol

Same kinf od difference between siemano and siemanko?


The only example I can think of is Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames. Otherwise, there are better examples. Sorry to pick holes, Justynka (which sounds quite bad in English, so I'd rather not say it in an English-0language environment).

i dont mind other people helping me out. and yes thats why i use Justysia instead, i know just what the other one sounds like.

I was originally going to type that, but being more of a music man than a football man, I decided to change my mind, especially as the song 'Yeah Yeah' came into my head. I didn't want it to suddenly become a huge list of Georgies, thus undermining the lesser of the two points I was making in that post.

The more important point being the one about Siemano / Siemanko.

Hang on - talk about undermining my own posts - there was a third point, but that's probably best left alone for the time being...

its the same situation like with siema and siemka, where siemanko is a dimunitive of siemano. siema and siemano is the same thing really.

Is it just a conglomeration of the words: się + ma(sz) + no?
It's just the 'no' I'm wondering about really.
I often get sidetracked into learning fairly useless things like this. Distractions, distractions...

excuse my ignorance...but I always thought dimunitive meant smaller/small.. so why is siemanko a dimunitive of siemano when it has an extra letter , making it bigger:):)

Why is słoń such a small word? What would be the diminutive of this? Słonik?
edit:
I ask about elephants again, partly because I like them, ever-so-slightly because the question is almost relevant to the topic, but mostly because no-one asnwered this question last night.

hahah I didn't actually catch on until I said it out loud

Sounds like "Used in car."

in Polish dimunitive is "zdrobnienie". that comes from "drobny" which means "tiny". the cause of a dimunitive is not to make a word shorter, but to describe something "tiny", which usually results in adding to words. dimunitives will often have extra endings "stuck" to them, such as: -ka, -sia, -czka, -ek, -siek. Im gonna come back to my name again, im 22 and most people will call me Justyna or panna Justyna (miss Justyna) because im a grown up. Justynka is what people would call a Justyna who's for example 5 yeras old, because its a "tiny" Justyna. Whats "tiny" is often "cute" too (no rude comments here :P), so when it comes to siema and siemka or siemanko, the longer the version the "cuter" it is. And no it doesnt matter how big is the person you are about to say it to. I hope this helps.


yes you are right osiol. i wouldnt worry too much about "no", it coulve been any other couple of letters and it wouldnt make any difference to the actual meaning of the word. its like saying "hey" and "heya", the extra "a" does nothing to "hey". its a dimunitive.

Osiol or Orsiolka?

if anything it would be Osiolek or Osioleczek . you could say Osliczka if he was a laydeee ;)

Osiołek

edit: I believe there is an opposite of diminutive - a kind of 'big bad' form some words can take.
Discuss in no more than 400 words.

I know that, was being funny!

yes there is, its called "zgrubienie". fine be like that, i wont explain it then.

:P

Please explain it.
Pretty please.
Prosiaczek!

Please, give us an example.

Take the common Ass for example (not the animal kind...)

yes it does ...many thanks for detailed explanation :)

Ok, zgrubienie works just like zdrobnienie (dimunitive) - you have extra endings that are being added to words, but it gives them a mostly negative meaning, or in some cases it underlines "greatness" or "big size". The endings will be for example -isko, -izda, - al, -ska. How about we use my name again ;). It would be Justysica or Justysizda, and depending in what context you use them they will be either negative, or just playful/sarcy. More examples: nose(nos) - nochal(big nose, ugly nose), zamek(castle) - zamczysko(huge castle), król(king) - królisko(big king), osioł- oślisko(huge donkey, ugly donkey). As you have probably noticed, by adding a dimunitive or a zgrubienie (not sure what that would be in English), not only you get a few extra letters at the end, but often the whole word looks different and some letters that were originally in it get replaced by others. yet again, hope it helps!

Not really English, but I occasionally borrow a German uber-
I am the uberdonkey!
Doesn't work in a serious context.


Yes, but then there is the rest of the grammar to throw into the mix.

i know and its not fun at all. didnt even wanna start on that.

pejorative


definitely the first option (negative meaning), diminutive is more two-ways (smaller or nicer).


zamczysko - dark, unpleasant castle (with nasty ghosts, for example :)


dupa - ass (arse, bottom)
dupeńka, dupcia - diminutives
dupsko - pejorative

osioł - ass/donkey
osiołek - diminutive (to underline that it's a nice ass)
oślątko - diminutive (to create "baby" version of the big animal, so a young offspring of donkeys)

what is the polish word for asking-what?

A very informative/useful discussion.
Thanks Justysias.
Feel like starting my polish lessons again, which I had stopped some time back :).

ha ha glad i could help, i still surprisingly remember stuff from school so i thought i would share. thank Krzysztof, he's smarter than me by the looks of it ha ha.

thanks everyoneee :)


'Co' pronounced 'tso' i believe :)

Thanks K, I missed this one!

Would you really like to be called like that? ;-) (you know what I mean: .izda)
I think a better (and the only I've ever heard) example would be 'Justycha'.

Other examples:

Kasia - Kacha (Katy)
Gosia - Gocha (Maggie)
Basia - Bacha (Barbara)
Zosia - Zocha (Sophie)
poduszka - poducha (pillow)
gruszka - grucha (pear)
dziewczyna - dziewucha (girl)

i tak dalej.

Cinek