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What is your favorite quote from a Polish movie? Posted by on May 23, 2014 in Phrases

Image by Susanne Davidson on flickr.com

Image by Susanne Davidson on flickr.com

How many times have you said “Let the force be with you”? Or “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get” in real life? Either seriously or as a joke…Movie quotes often “peel away” from the movie and function in every day life. There are so many great movie quotes…and  of course there are many great Polish quotes from Polish movies. Here are few of my favorite ones:

-Dorota! Dorota! Zaczekaj! Dokąd idziesz?! (…) Do kościoła idziesz, tak? I pewnie jeszcze do spowiedzi??

-Komuś muszę powiedzieć co czuję.

-Stoi przed tobą matka! Jeszcze się przede mną nie wyspowiadałaś, a już chcesz iść zawracać głowę wyższej instancji??

– Dorota! Dorota! Wait! Where are you going?! (…) To the church? And maybe also to confession??

– I have to tell someone how I feel.

– Your mother stand in front of you! You didn’t confess to me yet, and now you want to go bother a higher court??

– Sfik­so­wa­ły­ście, bo­ście chło­pa dawno nie miały! Chło­pa wam trze­ba!

– Co to zna­czy “mieć chło­pa”?

– Praw­do­po­dob­nie cho­dzi o męską służ­bę do­mo­wą, bar­dzo roz­po­wszech­nio­ną w XX wieku.

– You must be crazy! You haven’t had a man in a while! You need a man!

– What does it mean “to have a man”?

– Probably a male domestic service, very common in the twentieth century

– Kar­gul, po­dejdź no do płota!

– A na co?

– Po­dejdź, jak i ja pod­cho­dzę.

– Kargul, come to the fence!

– What for?

– Come, just like I do.

– Ja to, pro­szę pana, mam bar­dzo dobre po­łą­cze­nie. Wsta­ję rano za pięt­na­ście trze­cia. Latem to już widno. Za pięt­na­ście trze­cia je­stem ogo­lo­ny, bo golę się wie­czo­rem. Śnia­da­nie jadam na ko­la­cję. Tylko wsta­ję i wy­cho­dzę.

– No, ubie­rasz się pan.

– W płaszcz – jak pada. Opła­ca mi się roz­bie­rać po śnia­da­niu?

– Let me tell you, mister. I have a good connection. I wake up in the morning at 2:45 am. In the summer it’s already light out. A 2:45 I’m already shaved, because I shave a night before. I eat breakfast for dinner. I just get up and leave.

– Well, you get dresses?

– Only in raincoat, if it rains. Is it worth to get undressed after breakfast?

 

Can you guess which movies are these quotes from? I have to say that writing this post made me really homesick…Miss Poland!

Do następnego razu… (Till next time…)

 

 

 

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About the Author: Kasia

My name is Kasia Scontsas. I grew near Lublin, Poland and moved to Warsaw to study International Business. I have passion for languages: any languages! Currently I live in New Hampshire. I enjoy skiing, kayaking, biking and paddle boarding. My husband speaks a little Polish, but our daughters are fluent in it! I wanted to make sure that they can communicate with their Polish relatives in our native language. Teaching them Polish since they were born was the best thing I could have given them! I have been writing about learning Polish language and culture for Transparent Language’s Polish Blog since 2010.


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