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Nouns – Cases and Case Use Part II Posted by Kasia on Feb 23, 2011
Yesterday we talked about Nominative and Genitive. Today let’s move to Dative, Accusative and Instrumental case. Dative Case (czemu? komu?) The Dative case is used to express: 1. Senses of to and for a person, especially the indirect object (naming the recipient or beneficiary, or sometimes the person negatively affected by an action). Kup mi…
Nouns – Cases and Case Use Part I Posted by Kasia on Feb 22, 2011
Last time we talked about Polish Nouns. Today I wanted to go over cases and case use in polish grammar. Polish nouns have different forms for expressing GRAMMATICAL CASE, related to the function of the noun in a sentence. For each gender there are forms for the Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Instrumental, Locative, and Vocative…
Polish Nouns Posted by Kasia on Feb 18, 2011
Today I wanted to talk to you about nouns. I will try to explain this subject as good as I can. It could be a little confusing, so please ask questions in the comments. Polish does not have elements corresponding to English indefinite and definite articles a, an, the. One interprets a noun as definite…
Polish accent Posted by Kasia on Feb 17, 2011
Don’t you wonder how the English, Americans or others, even foreigners (obcokrajowcy), non native speakers of English, can easily recognize a Pole as a Pole even though he speaks (what he believes is) English. Your grammar (gramatyka) is perfect (or so you think), your Polish vocabulary (słownictwo) immaculate and nonetheless, there is no denying it…
Word order Posted by Kasia on Feb 16, 2011
Basic word order in Polish is SVO, however, as it is a synthetic language, it is possible to move words around in the sentence, and to drop the subject, object or even sometimes verb, if they are obvious from context. These sentences mean more or less the same (“Alice has a cat”), but different shades…
Feminine noun declension Posted by Kasia on Feb 15, 2011
The declension of nouns in Polish is less regular than of adjectives, but follows a pattern that is in many ways similar to adjective declension. Let’s take a look at a few typical feminine declension nouns in singular and are equal to nominative in plural): Girl (also means Girlfriend) Singular Plural Nominative dziewczyna…
Useful Polish phrases Posted by Kasia on Jan 19, 2011
Here are some basic phrases that would help you during the visit in Poland. Of course there are many more of them, but these simple ones should be enough for the beginning. Yes = Tak No = Nie Thank you = Dziękuję Thank you very much = Serdecznie dziękuję You’re welcome = Nie ma za…