"Taka prawda" - What does this Polish phrase mean?

Phonetically, it is something like: "Tak noh pravda" which I would guess means Yes, quite true". But a Pole I spoke with said they don't think they recognise the phrase, It could be "Techno pravda" which I guess would mean "Technically that's true". Any ideas?

I hear it a lot in media output.

One of the phrases that I was wondering about, phonetically "Ogshta veeshta" means "Of course." (Oczywiście)
The English phrase "Needless to say" which means pretty much the same as "Of course" translates to "Nie trzeba dodawać że" on Google. So I think I'll stick with oczywiście :oD

"Tak noh pravda" maybe it's "Taka prawda" which is "That is the truth", "The truth is like that" or something around.

Thanks Greg, that's a good addition to my phrase book even if it doesn't sound quite like the phrase as I'm fairly sure there's an N in it, I am thinking of taping hours of programming just to record someone saying it so I know for sure what the phrase means!

I have heard 'tak no prawda' too...i thought it meant something like...yeh well, true..?

At least I'm not just hearing things :oD

Never heard anything like that and I am Polish so you couldn't hear it from medias.


Doubt it.it sounds weird to agree 3 times in 3 words sentence.Polish person would say "Tak, to prawda","No,prawda"'or simply "prawda".


I guess you mean "Taka prawda".


Since you insist on "N" then it must be "Gówno prawda" what means "this is not true" but you don't want to speak this kind of language.

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- It means: "Yes, this is/that's true"
Or you could even say: "No tak. To prawda"


*Phonetically*, in English (not the International Phonetic Alphabet) these words should sound a bit more like: otche-vish-chair - oczywiście / Otche-vista - oczywista

I definitely hear it on the TV and radio, it's just that I am obviously mishearing it. I will try to listen more closely and return to the thread then, or I will try to find a recorder and play it back to you and Poles I know here to discover what I am mishearing.

I wonder if it's "Tak na prawa"? or tak 'no' prawa ?


Yes, you're correct.

"Tak naprawdę" is probably the phrase you're after. It would mean something along the line of "To be honest... / When you think of it... / It seems that... "

"Tak naprawdę, to nigdy nie lubiłam Józia."

"Propozycja tego kraju to tak naprawdę zakamuflowany szantaż."

"Tak naprawdę to nie wiem, o czym mówisz".

Thanks Magdalena, that sounds very likely to be it, great stuff! :o)

Just curious. was it a woman who used it and was she speaking to a child ?

if so. it means: wow! really!

Isn't that shit?

LOL. When did I say those words? It's literal translation is : "shi* truth" but ofc it's like saying "bull sh*t" in English. I'm very interested to know where that quote came from.... I promise I never posted that! lol

I can't find it either tommy? lol

Maybe someone hacked my account and the mods deleted it? I really don't know, lol...

Haha maybe, that's weird. I must have got it from somewhere lol

Not as far as I recall, Wroclaw, I hear it on Tok FM and TVN etc,


Yes.

;o)

Sounded like Haas po dippo milloy- any ideas?

It's not Polish, but Old Church Slavonic. Hospodin pomiluj means "Lord, have mercy", and is sung many times during an Orthodox or Greek Catholic church service. Many, many, many times.