Po polsku / Co sądzicie o Polakami noszą koszulki z logami w języku Polskim? [26]


and somehow I don't pay attention to it in others
There is no other way to say it in Polish .. or maybe...nie zwracam uwagi czy inni maja koszulki z polskim logo
BTW ( in Polish logo is always singular ...never logi, logami etc always logo. koszulki z polskim logo )

Genealogy / Tywoshewska, Kashawz Trying to find out where my grandmother is really from [6]

Tarnopol is a town in Ukraine now, but for centuries, until 1945 Tarnopol was Polish. According to Wikipedia “In 1939 it was a city of 40,000; 50% of the population was Polish, 40% Jewish and 10% Ukrainian”.

It looks like your Grandmother’s name was spelled incorectly on documents. Tywoshewska doesn’t sound right. Most likely her last name was Tymoshewska, in Polish spelled Tymoszewska.

If your Grandmother’s family was sent to a labor camp then they weren’t Jews (Germans were sending Jews to concentration camps, not labour camps). There were very few Ukrainians living in Tarnopol at that time. Therefore most likely your Grandmother was Polish, and her last name was Tymoszewska.

Tarnopol is about 450 kms from Krakow. The closest larger town to Tarnopol is Lvov, but not many people, especially from outside Europe know where Lvov is, then the next large city to describe location of Tarnopol would logically be Krakow.

USA, Canada / Gift idea for something uniquely American that is difficult to find in Poland? [67]

maple syrup and/or maple syrup goodies like cookies, tea/coofie sweetners, etc. They are not known in Poland, hard to get and expensive but people love them when they try them. They can be bought in some upscale delicatessen or health food stores in Warsaw.

Genealogy / Ziarko's from Opatow - searching for relatives in Poland [4]

According to the website moikrewni.pl there are 81 people with the last name Ziarko living in Opatów and 42 in the neighbouring Sandomierz. You will need more info like first names, age, etc to locate the right people

Language / dziękuję za lekcji/dziękuję za lekcję? za takes dopełniacz/biernik/celownik? [20]


Or maybe he wanted to say: czy możesz sobie ?
Czy możesz sobie odgrzać wczorajszy obiad, ja nie mam dzisiaj czasu gotować?

Language / dziękuję za lekcji/dziękuję za lekcję? za takes dopełniacz/biernik/celownik? [20]

Czy możesz mi to napisać?
Czy możesz sobie to napisać?
Czy możesz jemu/jej to napisać?
Czy możesz nam to napisać?
Czy możesz im to napisać?

Language / Chcę and chce [21]

No, they are pronouced differently
ę en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%98

Ja chcę ( I want)
On chce (He wants)

Language / Chcę and chce [21]


I never do.
Ę pronounced as E comes from the Wielkopolski dialekt. So in the western part of Poland ę and e sound the same very often.

Language / Chcę and chce [21]

Sometimes chcę is pronounced as chcem. I believe this pronunciation is common in the areas where immigrants from Vilno settled after the war.
Lech Wałęsa is famous for pronouncing chcę as chcem. He famous for saying: Nie chcem, ale muszem.

Language / Chcę and chce [21]


Fur sure it shouldn't be pronounced like Robie to co chce.

Yes, ę has lost half of its nosowość but not all. Lubaś W., Urbańczyk S., Podręczny słownik poprawnej wymowy polskiej, Warszawa 1990
Some nosowość should still be heard in RobiĘ to co chcĘ and you are right, not like it sounds in French. Loosing nosowość completely is simply a sloppy speech.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]


Actually, this characteristic pronunciation in Polish movies before the war wasn’t the pronunciation of the majority of Poles. It is called kresowa pronunciation (Kresy part of Ukraine and Belarus that were a part of Poland before the war). Kresowa pronunciation was the only allowed and acceptable pronunciation in movies and on stage (why?? don't no). Some actors, not from Kresy, had to learn it. This pronunciation was the only allowed and mandatory to learn by all students of the Polish Film and Theatre School until the sixties, but later abonded as, I guess, less and less Poles spoke like that naturally (Kresy not longer Polish).


Interestingly, Eugeniusz Bodo wasn’t Polish. He was born in Geneva and was a Swiss citizen. I believe he learned Polish later in his childhood (not sure about it). Being officially a Swiss citizen didn’t save him from the Soviets during the war. He was arrested by the Russians and transported to a gulag in Siberia where he died from hunger before the war ended.

Language / Do you know what "farfocle" means? [11]

As far as i know it is the same as farfocel. I am not aware of any different meaning or slang.

Original meaning of farfocel (XVI century): lint collected in a belly button. :)

Genealogy / Decipher a Polish name please: ONUFISC or ORUFRISC ? Czyzyk surname [16]


Onufry Czyżyk

Language / Miłość, how to decline it in the accusative? [9]

accusative is the same as the nominative case when a noun has no plural form eg: miłość, nienawiść, zawiść, złość, szlachetność, hojność and so on

Language / Miłość, how to decline it in the accusative? [9]

Oops, I referred above to a wrong rule :) Time to go to bed :)

The correct rule is: accusative is the same as the nominative case when a feminine noun ends with a consonant: mysz, zlość, straż etc.

Language / pisać-pisanie, jeść-jedzenie, what is the rule for jeść to jedzenie? [9]


or spaść - spasienie

Spaść has 2 meanings:
spaść - spadać
spaść - spasać

Language / Polish insult that sounds kinda like " e sha vees ta" ? [16]

Idź się wysraj i 100% Polish and dosn't come from some dialect.
This is not a nice reply to someone who according to us speaks crap. And it is still quite common in Polish language.

Mijimaes:
jaja pronounced yaya are eggs in Polish or testicles
dziadzia pronounced jaja is grandpa in Polish

Genealogy / Trying to locate information on my Great Uncle Frank Pryeor [9]


The name of the village is Tywonia, in the district of Jaroslaw. I googled it and Tywonia is 4 km away from Jaroslaw and just over 100 kms from Tarnowiec

The father is Josephus which is latin for Józef, last name Przewor, resident (incola) of Tywonia (district Jaroslaw), son of Josephus Przewor and Agatha (Agata) maiden name Kosik .

Mother is Ludovica (Ludwika) daughter of Nicolai (Mikołaj) can't read his last name and Marianna, unable to read the rest

I think that Nikolai's last is Sołtys (it means a village leader in Polish, ) relatively commom last name

Language / A list of steps/rules on how to translate English into Polish? [22]

I belive it is quite complicated to explain. Perhaps you can find some useful websites that will help you understand the rules. You can try to google szyk wyrazów w zdaniu w języku polskim.

Here is a nice summary of the rules : pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szyk_wyraz%C3%B3w

Po polsku / Co uczysz się ostatnio w języku polskim? Norma językowa? [35]

If I may : Czego ostatnio uczysz się w języku polskim?? or (it sound better) Czego nowego ostatnio nauczyłeś się (or uczysz się) po polsku?

I hope i didn't offend you by correcting your grammar. If so, I appologize.

News / Polish hero pilot lands 767 without wheels. (Warsaw) [191]


He is 53. He has been flying gliders since he was 16 years old ( a minimum legal age to do so). Some experts say now that his experience flying and landing a glider helped him today.

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Wrona_(pilot)

Life / Help me find this Polish band and song.... [117]

I think the song you are looking for may be LIST DO CARA (A letter to Tsar), Polish army march song.

youtu.be/TtvUMAIDxz0

LIST DO CARA
A konna bateria już nad Styrem stoi,
już nad Styrem stoi, już nad Styrem stoi.
I pisze do Cara, że się go nie boi,
Że się go nie boi, hopaj - siup!

Hopaj - siupaj, hopaj - siupaj,
hopaj - siupaj dana, hopaj - siupaj dana,
dziewczyno kochana.
Wczoraj spałem na podłodze,
Dziś na stogu siana,
Do samego rana, hopaj - siup!

I pisze do Cara czarnym atramentem,
czarnym atramentem, czarnym atramentem.
Że się go nie boi z całym regimentem,
z całym regimentem, hopaj - siup!

...

hallmann.art.pl/piesni_rzeczpospolitej/list_do_cara.html

Language / "Szurszewski" - How to pronounce my last name correctly? [7]

Shoorshevski

Genealogy / A long shot but... -looking for any info about Krawczyk & Sasiadek family [2]

Krawczyk is a very common Polish surname. I think you will have a better luck with Sąsiadek (pls note the proper Polish spelling).
Wschowa is relatively a small town (14 thousand residents). On Polish Facebook called Nasza Klasa, there are 2 people in Wschowa with the last name Sąsiadek: Emilia a very young girl and Katarzyna who is "connected" on NK to 8 other people with the same last name among them Krzysztof Sąsiadek who now lives in Norwich, England and Paweł Sąsiadek who doesn't disclose his location. Pawel is 30 yo.

According to NK, there 23 people with the surame Krawczyk in Wschowa

I also found these businesses in Wschowa:

P.H.U. Sąsiadek Bartłomiej
Daszyńskiego 12/2, 67-400 Wschowa
tel:781-317-479
e-mail : instalbart@wp.pl

(Bartek a diminutive of Bartłomiej)

and

US£UGI PROJEKTOWE PAWE£ SĄSIADEK
67-400 Wschowa, Ogrodowa 27
Tel.: 605586693
e-mail: uslugiprojektowe@wp.pl

at Ogrodowa 27 there is also another business registered that belongs to Romuald Sąsiadek

Life / Poles don't know that baby seat should be in back only? [16]

Do you remember Janusz Liberkowski and his Anecia Safery Capsule? He won million bucks for his idea and for a while worked with a major car seat manufacturer on developing his project.

Language / Is this proper Polish grammar? If it is, can you explain how it is? [32]

This is czas zaprzeszły (Past Perfect Tense).

Here is a nice and short lesson:
The Past Perfect Tense

Surprised? Yes, dear readers, the Polish language officially has the past perfect tense, although it is mentioned in grammar books only formally. Nowadays it is used more often in speech to add a unique, ironic flavor to what is being said. It ceased to exist in regular use at the beginning of the 20th century; however, its elements still play a vital role in the Polish modal "powinien” ("ought to”). Example: pisałem był (I had been writing), pisałeś był (you had been writing), pisał był (he had been writing). Expressing "ought to” in the past tense: powinienem był/powinieneś był, powinien był. The past perfect is to some extent also reflected in the Polish conditional: the particles -bym; -byśmy, -byś; -byście, and -by are movable and sometimes present difficulties for even Polish experts.

Example:

Jeśli chcielibyście to kupić, to chętnie to sprzedam. = Jeśli byście chcieli to kupić, to chętnie to sprzedam. – both versions mean if you would like to buy it, I will gladly sell it, and are correct, but the position depends on the stylistic needs of the author.

Language / Negation in Polish sentences [12]

twww189: 8. Może one wiedzą o kimś, kto wraca do Krakowa.

Maybe they know of someone who is returning to Krakow?

Law / Shipping a car from USA to Poland [85]


In Poland a blinker has to be a yellow/orange light and separated from a rear red brake light. Some American cars use a blinking brake light for a turn signal.

Law / Shipping a car from USA to Poland [85]


TV most likely won't work. There is a different system in Poland. I don't know much about it but you can google info on Pal Secam to get an explanation.

Radio won't work in Poland either due to a different FM broadcast band in Europe.


Yes, I did it a few years ago. You need to do it only if you want to register car in Poland. You can drive it without a yellow blinker if the car is registered outside Poland.