Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]

If all of you had started leaning the language when this thread started and kept practicing, today you'd be fluent enough to see no point in continuing discussions like this ;-)

Cinek

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


This is actually the Polish titile of an old Czechoslovak cartoon youtube.com/watch?v=xRQC71IviYc

Its meaning as 'fairy tales' is probably quite new and invented by kids who watched that cartoon.

Cinek

Language / Polish Food Cat Names [7]

Kaszanka. Doesn't end with ee, but very Polish :-)

Genealogy / Abbreviations used in Polish gravestone inscriptions [63]


Pułkownik Wojska Polskiego

Life / What it means to be Polish or How to be Polish? [14]


No! Go for it. The difficulty is exagerrated. It's the best thing you can and should do I think.

Cinek

USA, Canada / Nearly 39 million have lost jobs in US since virus took hold [9]

Welcome to socializm paradise :-) And was that Trump, great capitalist, who did it? The world is awkward...

Language / Verbal nouns and past-tense adjectives from imperfective & perfective verbs..when to use which aspect? [48]


It's ok in general. But we seldom use sentences like that. It's used mostly in cases when you need to highlight the order of some actions: one thing happened first, then the other and the order is what is important in the sentence.

Cinek

Language / Verbal nouns and past-tense adjectives from imperfective & perfective verbs..when to use which aspect? [48]


Can be too. As much as you can expect not perfect texts in free wikipedia, I cannot find explanation for such errors in commercial sites that want to be informative. In the day of printed papers everything had to be checked twice before going to print. But now you can just press a key and done!

I think that learning proper language from the web is risky in general. You better read printed books or papers. They are also usually written in better language style.

Cinek

btw, I fixed the article on Wikipedia: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_del_Popolo

Language / Verbal nouns and past-tense adjectives from imperfective & perfective verbs..when to use which aspect? [48]

@mafketis

Edit errors. Typical example of bad editor's work. They often change one word and dont read the entire sentence, so it ends up like that.

Sometimes my eyes hurt when I read such texts on the web, but this is what happens when they wan to make that work done fast and cheap.

Cinek.

Language / Verbal nouns and past-tense adjectives from imperfective & perfective verbs..when to use which aspect? [48]

Hi,
In passive mode you use 'zostać' with perfective and 'być' with imperfective.
e.g.
Samochód został naprawiony - the car has been reparied.
Goście zostali obdarowani upominkami - the guests was presented with gifts.
v.s.
Samochód był naprawiany kiedy go zobaczyłem - The car was being reparied when I saw it.
Kiedy wszedłem, goście byli obdarowywani upominkami - When I came in the quests were being presented with gifts.

Also, you can use 'był' with perfective when you want to express the 'finished state' of an action in the past (similar way you'd say it in the present or future).

e.g.
Samochód jest juz naprawiony - the car is fixed already.
Samochód był naprawiony kiedy go zobaczyłem - The car had been repaired already when I saw it.
Samochód będzie naprawiony kiedy się spotkamy jutro - the car will have been fixed tomorrow when we meet.

You never use 'zostac' with imprefective.

Cinek

Law / Visa for Work in Poland [29]

@chala
Hi
You must find a company who is willing to hire you first. Then they must apply for the work permit for you.

Cinek

Life / Solar energy in Poland [22]


Generating solar power is not the biggest problem in Poland. The problem is making any money out of it (as a private person) because you cannot sell your energy back to the system. You can only give them your energy and then obtain some discount (like 80% or so) when buying energy from them later on.

Or, if you want to use your own produced energy in the night you must keep it in some batteries. But the cost of such batteries is even bigger than the solar panels what makes the whole investment completely unprofitable.

Cinek

Life / Solar energy in Poland [22]

Poland is a cloudy place. Solar panels are not profitable.

Cinek

Classifieds / Help With Translating Handwritten Polish Records [18]

It's definitely Russian. Mazowieckie was Russian partition in XIX century. I could only decipher some dates and names but cannot grasp the actual meaning of those documents. You must find some Russian person to translate.

Cinek

Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]


If you want to learn a bit of one and be able to understand both then forget it. I think you will even not be able to notice the similarities (unless some word stems when written).

Feedback / Is it Polish forum or foreign forum? [159]

I've been reading PF for quite a long time, and didn't notice that negative opinions about Poland are majority here.
I just think you exaggerate.

Feedback / Is it Polish forum or foreign forum? [159]

Are you new government's plenipotentiary for PF in ruins?

Life / Move to Poland or UK? (Advice needed) [51]

Check this:
pl.atos.net/pl-pl/home/kariera/kierunki-kariery/managed-operations.html
It's in Polish mixed with English so you should be able to understand. Atos is recruting many foreigners in call centers and similar in Bydgoszcz, so you may find something for you. Additionally, Bydgoszcz is still relatively 'pure' and multiculturalism is almost non-existent here.

Cinek

Off-Topic / Which western European country would assimilate more Poles and other Slavs in next 50 years? [12]

Final end of slavic civilization?
He he. Tell that to Putin

Language / RUDE word form conjugation + communicating on facebook in Polish [15]


Nobody said that. The '-' before the stem means "put a prefix here" and that was meant in the original question as far as I understood.

Cinek

Language / RUDE word form conjugation + communicating on facebook in Polish [15]


No, she was right. She just meant the whole -pierdolić/-pierdalać family of words that are created by prefixing these stems e.g.:

od-pierdolić / od-pierdalać to do something wrong/strange
pod-pierdolić / pod-pierdalać to steal, to denounce,
s-pierdolić / s-pierdalać to escape, to fail

etc.

Cinek

Genealogy / Is Gajos a Silesian or Polish surname? [12]


Baybe this guy? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Gajos

;-)

Language / Family members in Polish [8]


Formally yes. But almost nobody uses those names any more. They both are just 'ciocie' (- pl., 'ciocia' - sing.).

Cinek

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]


When said to a teacher, especially in Poland, then I'd say yes. But again, I may be outdated... ;-)

Cinek

Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]

"Dział kontroli luster to praca w której bym się widział"

from bash.org.pl: bash.org.pl/4847094

Cinek

Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]


Also: 'Zaćmienie słońca'

Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]


Hmm, I live in kuj-pom area and it's quite popular here. Didn't know that people might have not ever heard it :-)

Cinek

Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]


We usually say 'zakluczyć' - to lock
It's probably a colloquial word but makes it less ambiguous.

Cinek

Po polsku / Życie pod wspólnym dachem. Jak to jest? [28]

Według mnie, szanse są zawsze.Spróbuj to się przekonasz, a na pewno dowiesz się też co nieco o sobie. Może za miesiąc czy dwa dla kompromisu zaakceputjesz to co Cie teraz tak wkurza, kto wie.... :-)

Pamiętaj, nikt nie jest idealny, my też nie.

Cinek

Po polsku / Życie pod wspólnym dachem. Jak to jest? [28]


Czy myślisz, ze on nie ma tego samego? Każdy potrzebuje czasem samotności. Mieszkanie razem nie oznacza od razu robienia zawsze wszystkiego wspólnie. Po prostu, daje się sobie na wzajem od czasu do czasu 'czas prywatny' kiedy każde zajmuje się swoimi sprawami i już. Inaczej sie nie da :-)

Cinek