Genealogy / Common surnames in Poland NOT of Polish origin ? [87]


isn't Sapieha from the same family of names?

Genealogy / trying to verify marriage Malecki/Yarck [4]


Yes, this part of Poland was under the German rule in the 19th c.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietrzanowo

And here's the parish site: nietrzanowo.archpoznan.org.pl/aktualnosci/glowna.htm

Genealogy / Common surnames in Poland NOT of Polish origin ? [87]


Seems that your family comes from southern Poland. As you probably know already, "pajda" means a thick slice of bread.

Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]


It seems the very existence of women is traumatizing for you. Tough.

Language / Polish names spelling and pronunciation [24]

Or Zuźka (Zuza, Zuzka, Zuzanna).

Language / Biernik czy narzędnik (Accusative or Instrumental) [65]


The rules are different for nouns and adjectives, and you're mixing them up here, hence the confusion.
In English, "English" and "Polish" are adjectives (I am English, I am Polish).
But in Polish you use the words Anglik/Polak, which are nouns, so in this sentence they take Instrumental.

Jestem + Noun --> Instrumental
Jestem + Adjective --> Nominative
Jestem + Adjective + Noun --> Instrumental

so it's:
Jestem chłopakiem
Jestem przystojny
Jestem przystojnym chłopakiem.

The case of the adjective is determined by the presence/absence of a noun. When a noun follows, the adjective takes the same case as the noun. If there's no noun and the adjective stands by itself, then it's in the Nominative case.


ona jest miła, ono/to jest miłe, oni są mili, my jesteśmy mili, wy jesteście mili, oni są mili

but: ja jestem miłym chłopcem
ty jesteś miłym chłopcem
on jest miłym chłopcem
my jesteśmy miłymi chłopcami
wy jesteście miłymi chłopcami
oni są miłymi chłopcami

Is it clear now?

Language / Biernik czy narzędnik (Accusative or Instrumental) [65]

It can happen in lazy speech, but I'd rather expect to hear "To Polak" then.

Food / The Mystery of Polish Sausage - Interesting kiełbasa link [17]


A-F are six grades or levels too, so what's your problem?


yeah... so, not to get off-topic, do you buy your sausage by pound or by kilogram?

Food / The Mystery of Polish Sausage - Interesting kiełbasa link [17]


same as 1

uhm. so may I ask how many miles do you have to drive to the nearest Lidl? Or is the distance so close that it can be measured in yards? :D

Language / Biernik czy narzędnik (Accusative or Instrumental) [65]


No worries, Chrząszcz - ask until you're sure you understand. It's the most sensible part of the forum anyway :) Just remember you owe me a beer when you get your B next year!

Language / Biernik czy narzędnik (Accusative or Instrumental) [65]


"It will do" or "ok". Acceptance, but not very enthusiastic.


right


leniwi - it's plural


leniwymi ludźmi


You will :)

Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]


No respect due here, I'm afraid.

Language / What does it mean? - A Polish language game for foreigners [59]

how about: być w lesie?

Life / All Saints' Day in Poland - Commemoration or Carnival? [44]


I haven't seen it yet but it's probably only a matter of time, after I've seen singing lamps nothing will surprise me anymore - and they were singing this awful pop hit "Rise, see, you're not alone..." now, that was something.

Language / Busha and JaJa [140]


Yet another Anglophone claims to know more about Polish than a native, educated Pole. Just give it a break. It's not even funny.

Language / What does it mean? - A Polish language game for foreigners [59]


not quite. skip the comparison part, you don't need to compare to anybody else in order to być w lesie.
- Jak ci idzie pisanie raportu?
- Jestem w lesie...

Language / Biernik czy narzędnik (Accusative or Instrumental) [65]


It might be trivial but I've no idea - it just is so :)
Well, probably some phonetical/morphological/historical processes are responsible for the irregularity, I suppose it might have something to do with the palatalization of "z" (or, rather, "dz") into ź/dź, but I'm no expert on Polish historical grammar so I won't even try to explain it.

All I can say is, Polish's full of irregularities. Accept it, memorize it, love it - or leave it :)

Language / Biernik czy narzędnik (Accusative or Instrumental) [65]

On second thought, there seems to be a pattern for these irregularities:
przyjaciel - przyjaciele - przyjaciółmi (not przyjacielami)
ludzie - ludźmi (not ludziami)
koń - konie - końmi (not koniami)
dłoń - dłonie - dłońmi (not dłoniami)

but then, you've got: słoń - słonie - słoniami (not słońmi!)

...so I give up. It's worse than sudoku, especially after all that beer which I bought for the Poland-England game.
Hope you have good memory, nothing else can save you :)

Language / Polish Accusative / Genitive case [20]




corrections in bold, the rest is fine


there probably is :D

Language / What does it mean? - A Polish language game for foreigners [59]


more or less. not up to it yet. most of the work still remains to be done.


You're really good :)

One for today: leśne dziadki

Language / Biernik czy narzędnik (Accusative or Instrumental) [65]

good examples, and again, there are palatalized sounds here, so they're probably the culprits.

Food / New Polish Recipe Website - I Love Pierogi [17]

mojewypieki.com/kategoria/serniki-pieczone
mojewypieki.com/przepis/tradycyjna-babka-marmurkowa

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]


Same as Poles, we do great with one-off crisis actions, but not so great coping with small everyday problems. Hope the Irish can deal better with the mundane stumbling blocks.

Anyway, the story has a very personal feel for me. A big thank you to everybody who's contributed.

Real Estate / Polish building plans [16]


Or centimetres.

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]


I don't think embassies cover anybody's medical bills abroad. As for the community, they've already done a lot during her treatment. Also, the article says "So far the campaign page has raised €19,089" - so this amount was probably collected before the publication in the Irish media. I've read the blog. There were collections in Poland too, at sports events.


The girl had medical insurance in Ireland but it didn't cover all the costs of the treatment, part of it she had to pay herself. Now they're checking if any Polish clinic would agree to try any further treatment but as she has no Polish insurance, she would have to pay for that in full.

Her family have stayed in Ireland, to be with her and to take care of the child, which probably adds more to the financial burden as the cost of living in Ireland is higher than in Poland.


Actually, we have no governmental jet. The last one crashed near Smoleńsk. She can't go by ambulance and medical flights are very expensive.

Language / When would one use nowy and when would he use nowego? [23]


The genitive of ołówek is ołówka.


For Sing., Gen = Acc - psa, kota. For Plural, its psów, kotów for the Gen. and psy, koty for the Acc., so it's nie ma psów - widzę psy.

Language / Stworzyć and Utworzyć [14]


It was created to make room/space...
stworzyć - to bring something into existence (sth original that didn't exist before), to create sth for the first time
utworzyć - just to make, the process can be repetitive

It's not very clear-cut but more or less along these lines.

edit: I see that's been said already; anyway, that would be my choice too

Language / "oshkan" - Female Polish Name? [6]

Aśka? (short from Joanna)
or Gośka (Małgorzata)

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Had a bad day in the office, Pip?

Language / prywatki & przyjęcia...difference? [10]

przyjęcie is formal and elegant - a reception.
prywatka is just a house party, but the word is quite outdated, I think it was used in the 1960s and 70s, nobody's using it now. now it's impreza, imprezka, melanż... I don't know what else.