Short Polish<->English translations

Merged: "I want you" in Polish?

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I want you. - Pragnę Ciebie.
On/ona Cię pragnie. -he/she wants you.
Janku, Ewelina Cię pragnie. - John/Ewelina wants you

" Ewelina wants you"

Context? Wants to fcuk you? Wants to speak to you?

As Polish is so difficult

No, you giving no context make things difficult.

No Wulkan me giving no context does not make it difficult.
Polish is what makes it difficult.
John says to Paul :" Damian wants you". Paul says :"ok".
Thats how it works in English. Of course he could say what for. Which the reply could be :" i dont know".
This is very normal.

So if i am trying or asking someone what is Polish for :" he wants you".
And he/she doesn't understand then i am afraid that is the Polish language's fault.
None mine. There is no need to say why in English. It's perfectly acceptable.

Merged: "I want you" in Polish?

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More like your Polish friend's fault if she doesn't understand.

You cannot translate directly from one language to another. What works in English isn't going to necessarily work in Polish.
In your above example what you need to say is " Damian wants to speak to you", because if a person is wanted by another, there will always be a reason why. That reason puts context into the sentence, and in Polish language, context is everything.


Sorry but it isn't. You are making the mistake of thinking you can directly translate from English to Polish. You are blaming the language instead of your own lack of understanding.


But there is in Polish and this is what you need to understand.

laska and the diminutive laseczka is a quite fresh borrowing from the Czech language - 'laska' in Czech means 'love' also a person one loves or has a crush on

at first 'laska' or 'moja laska' meant a girlfriend then it developed a meaning of girl in general and then 'hot girl'

Thanks for that information Gumishu, interesting to hear that laska and it's diminutive is borrowed from Czech language!

Did you mean the word laska or its "hot chick" meaning? Laska has meant a walking-stick in Polish since time immemorial. And łaska is the Polish word for grace and shared the same root as the Czech laska (the Bohemians had lost the distinction between the soft and hard L). The now anecdotal "laska nebeska" was perceived by Poles as meaning both a blue walking-stick and blue phallus. Maybe the meaning of laska (hot chick) entered that way but not the word itself.

One example of Czech influence goes way back: obywatel. In Polish it should've been obywaciel.

the other one - sure the word laska existed in Polish for centuries before but the meaning of girlfriend then a girl in general then hot girl was borrowed from the Czech language in like late 70's or even 80's

Indeed, Helene Vondrackova sang it together with Maryla Rodowicz at the Sopot Festival once and they held a blue walking-stick while singing it.


Never heard of this meaning before.


It's one of the current theories.

Laska means "miłość" in Czech.
Milost means "łaska" in Polish.

Wasza miłość --> Waszmość in old Polish was a way of addressing high-rank people meaning "Wasza łaskawość" (in other words: "Łaskawy Panie/Łaskawa Pani")

Merged: Help to express my love - translation

Hi,

I have met this gorgeous polish girl, and fallen in love with her. We speak norwegian to each other (she lives in Norway), but I want to express my feelings to her in her native language. Hopefully, some of you can help me.

The phrase I want to say to her is:
"I can not explain how or why I feel like I do. I just know that you make me smile, and I have butterflies flying around in my stomach every time I think of you. You can call it love at first sight, or just two soulmates finally meeting. I don't care. I love you."

Nie potrafię wyjaśnić, co czuję i dlaczego. Wiem tylko, że przyprawiasz mnie o uśmiech, a w brzuchu czuję motyle kiedykolwiek o Tobie pomyślę. Można to nazwać miłością od pierwszego wejrzenia, a może wreszcie spotkały się dwie bratnie dusze. Zwał jak zwał, mnie wszystko jedno. Po prostu kocham Cię!

Hello

I'm wondering if any Polish speakers could help me translate a phrase my grandparents always said when we sat down to eat. They never spelled it out for me, so I only know it phoenetically as "boo-shants pani." I think they said it meant something like "bon appetite" but I'm not sure. Any help?

In Polish 'smacznego' means 'bon-appatite' - but your phonetics isn't too close to that.. : )

sounds more like "usiądź pani" which means "sit down lady"

Where exactly were they from, and how old were they when they left Poland?

maybe it was some kind of private joke between them?

Merged: want to know polish language

Hello poles! how to say good morning?

Google translate is bad but not this bad.

In Polish the 'good morning' or 'good afternoon' is the same - "dzień dobry" - we say dzień dobry until the sun is shining - before sunset. Then just we change it for 'dobry wieczór'. Those are only terms for greeting. For a goodbye during a day we say mostly something like "do widzenia" or "na razie", etc. However the 'dobranoc' is used exclusively when we say goodbye to someone (not for a greeting) and it's late already - night or almost night.

Hello people!
I need help again.
Tried different online translators,but results are confusing.

Nie odzywam się żeby nie zakocha się...

Only the infinitive ending -ć is missing. Also the word order could be improved. It should read:

Nie odzywam się, żeby się nie zakochać.

That's incorrect for sure but what do you want to say in English?

Sounds like someone try to say good luck in French: Bonne chance!

I am not the one who wrote it.
I received this message from a Polish friend.

It is still very confusing,even when I try to translate the version Polonius wrote.

Google Translate will even give different results when I select other languages.
For example: PL > EN: They did not speak,not to fall in love
PL > NL Ze sprak niet ....etc (translated: She did not speak)
I tried other languages,all with different results (She didn't want to speak... He did not say...I'm saying... etc)

Translactica gives me this: PL > EN : I am not saying a word in order not to fall in love.

Could it mean that he does not want to talk because he does not want to fall in love with me?
Or maybe he does not want to encourage me to fall in love with him?

Whatever it means...I think I have to agree that it's better not to fall in love. This language barrier is just too big :(

He's saying he wouldn't have been talking to you in the first place if he didn't want to fall in love.

He likes you ;-)

There's a problem with the zachocha się as others have said. If it's meant to be zachokasz się and he just missed the end off (or autocorrect) then the meaning is slightly different but still OK.

That sounds a bit more like "I wouldn't have got in touch in order for you to not fall in love with me.

Oke,thank you for helping. :)

Polish is a difficult language and not being able to talk face-to-face doesn't make it any easier.

Merged: Translation of slang

Hi
Can someone please help me translate the following:

Hej , jak to leciało z ta nutella ? Is Nutella a slang Word in Poland?

Thanks in advance :-)

Merged: what is the meaning of "ciacho"

OK, forgive my ignorance. What is the contemporary meaning of "ciacho" in Poland.

attractive person

Merged: What does this polish word mean

trafił

Thank's :)