rozumiemnic 8 | 3895
15 May 2017 #511
TAke your feet off the seats you old cow.
Short Polish<->English translations
Hi
As a child my grandmother used to call me
"Kalagas Pestka" or at least I think that is how it is spelled. I'm looking for a reference to that phrase but can't find any.
She said it meant "my friend the pits"
And it meant that if the whole world was a bowl of cherries you are my friend the pits.
Any help to find the proper spelling of this phrase would be appreciated.
As a child my grandmother used to call me
"Kalagas Pestka" or at least I think that is how it is spelled. I'm looking for a reference to that phrase but can't find any.
She said it meant "my friend the pits"
And it meant that if the whole world was a bowl of cherries you are my friend the pits.
Any help to find the proper spelling of this phrase would be appreciated.
Or maybe something like this
"Jak swiat bylby polmiskiem czeresni, ty moja przyjacielu jestes jak pestki"
"Jak swiat bylby polmiskiem czeresni, ty moja przyjacielu jestes jak pestki"
jack8374e
24 May 2017 #514
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Please can someone translate this for me, my girlfriend said it to me after I told her that I missed her
Ja Za Tobą tez ale już sie odczep
Thank you
Please translate this for me!
Please can someone translate this for me, my girlfriend said it to me after I told her that I missed her
Ja Za Tobą tez ale już sie odczep
Thank you
Miss you too but buzz off now.
jack8374e
24 May 2017 #516
Thank you so much for the fast response. She confirmed this was correct haha
"There's no such thing as bad publicity".
Not a literal translation necessarily, but a suitable or similar Polish phrase or idiom.
Not a literal translation necessarily, but a suitable or similar Polish phrase or idiom.
NativePole
25 May 2017 #518
Nieważne jak/co piszą/mówią, byleby pisali/mówili
Nieważne jak piszą, ważne, żeby pisali. - the parts of speech are replaceable as above.
Nieważne jak piszą, ważne, żeby pisali. - the parts of speech are replaceable as above.
seeker21
29 May 2017 #519
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If you could provide the pronunciation? And also can it be used as a term of endearment?
What is the word for a kit fox?
If you could provide the pronunciation? And also can it be used as a term of endearment?
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I want to say, "I bet you look even more beautiful when you blush"
I have: "Założę się, że wyglądasz jeszcze więcej piękniej, gdy rumienisz się."
Any help hugely appreciated!
How to say this is Polish?
I want to say, "I bet you look even more beautiful when you blush"
I have: "Założę się, że wyglądasz jeszcze więcej piękniej, gdy rumienisz się."
Any help hugely appreciated!
NoToForeigners 6 | 943
30 May 2017 #521
Założę się, że wyglądasz jeszcze piękniej, gdy się rumienisz.
peter_olsztyn 6 | 1081
1 Jun 2017 #522
zrobił to z zaskoczenia -
ściągawka -
nie opłaca się -
ściągawka -
nie opłaca się -
NoToForeigners 6 | 943
11 Jun 2017 #523
@peter_olsztyn
He did it suddenly/all of the sudden
Cheat sheet
Not worth it(effort)
He did it suddenly/all of the sudden
Cheat sheet
Not worth it(effort)
Hello can someone translate this for me ? thank you so much.
When the morning sun streaks across my room and I'm waking up from another dream of you.
When the morning sun streaks across my room and I'm waking up from another dream of you.
Kiedy poranny promyk światła przenika mój pokój, ja budzę się z kolejnego snu o Tobie.
Something like that
Something like that
Kceecody
23 Jun 2017 #526
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Dziadzia
Need help with pronunciation
Dziadzia
To myk!
Anybody translate? Believe it is slang, context heard a man say to a women.
Anybody translate? Believe it is slang, context heard a man say to a women.
What comes to my mind is: 'lets do it!'
but it may be anything as we don't know the previous sentence.
but it may be anything as we don't know the previous sentence.
@Looker
Sounds about right, was in response to a shout out to see if anyone wanted to grab some beers.
Sounds about right, was in response to a shout out to see if anyone wanted to grab some beers.
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My father, now deceased, used to say two phrases as we were growing up. He hinted it was Polish by saying it was from the "old country" but I am not sure. I have never been able to decipher his phrases so seeking help here and please accept my apologies in advance if these phrases are not polite. To the best of my ability the phrases phonetically were: 1) Hie yachtim dobscha; and 2) Schakraffe magretta. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance
Translation help
My father, now deceased, used to say two phrases as we were growing up. He hinted it was Polish by saying it was from the "old country" but I am not sure. I have never been able to decipher his phrases so seeking help here and please accept my apologies in advance if these phrases are not polite. To the best of my ability the phrases phonetically were: 1) Hie yachtim dobscha; and 2) Schakraffe magretta. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance
Can't quite make our which words you attempted to transcribe, fmal867. Perhaps some documents with the words written might aid in translation. I'm also not a Polish native speaker, and so maybe to someone else, what you've written is more transparent:-)
Just a quicky 'dobscha' is probably supposed to read "dobrze" (which you did write correctly in phonetics), meaning "good". Apart from that, apologies for not being able to read the rest for you.
My sympathies on your loss!
Just a quicky 'dobscha' is probably supposed to read "dobrze" (which you did write correctly in phonetics), meaning "good". Apart from that, apologies for not being able to read the rest for you.
My sympathies on your loss!
Perhaps you heard the sentence "Jak dobrze..." (Y -A - K D - O - P - S - H - A) = "..how good or well.." Only a guess, sorry:-)
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NoToForeigners 6 | 943
1 Jul 2017 #533
dobscha
Is not phonetically correct!!! Stop misinforming people. "Dobsche" with "e" pronounced like the first letter of "elephant".
Hie yachtim dobsche sounds similarly (to some degree) to "Ja chciałem dobrze" meaning "I meant well". Just guessing too.
No idea about the second one though.
Dobsche
Both dopsche and dobsche are wrong. It should be dobzhe.
Schakraffe magretta
The first part was probably the well-known but mild curse psia krew (literally: dog's blood). Dunno what the Magretta part might be. Perhaps a feminine name?
fmal867, "Psia krew!" or "Psia krew bydlo" (lit. "Dog's blood, cattle!") are now somewhat old-fashioned curses. In translation, of course, they sound ridiculous to Anglophone ears, but in Polish, once carried some weight:-)
@NoToForeigners,
I'm not misinforming, you're trolling.
@NoToForeigners,
I'm not misinforming, you're trolling.
once carried some weight
Pisa krew (I'I've also heard psia jucha) is what dzaidek migth say when pounding in a nail andhitting his thumb with the hammer. Babcia might say: "Nie przy dzieciach!"
Cholera was once a strong curse, as was pox on you.
"Psia krew bydlo"
Never heard it lyzko
"Psia krew!"are now somewhat old-fashioned curses
Old fashioned? Nope, just no in fashion right now.
By definition, if something's old-fashioned, it's no longer in fashion, right? You can't have it both ways!
By definition, if something's old-fashioned, it's no longer in fashion, right?
It had been in use during my life-time and I'm not some 70 years old geezer. I see it as temporally downfall of the Polish culture - all those historical curse words are replaced by the dumb teens by a one word only - kurwa. yuck !