{"id":479,"date":"2009-02-14T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T03:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=479"},"modified":"2009-02-14T23:24:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T03:24:18","slug":"swieto-zakochanych","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/swieto-zakochanych\/","title":{"rendered":"\u015awi\u0119to Zakochanych"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judging from the media and advertising you\u2019d almost believe that <strong>Walentynki<\/strong> (St. Valentine\u2019s Day) is a long-standing Polish tradition. It is not. When I was a high school student in the ancient days of&#8230; oh well, let\u2019s say, the late 80s (yes, I know, I am dating myself here) nobody ever heard about <strong>\u015awi\u0119to Zakochanych<\/strong> (Lovers\u2019 Celebration, or Celebration of Those in Love). And those foreign imports that did hear about it, didn\u2019t celebrate it.<\/p>\n<p>Valentine\u2019s Day reached Poland sometime in the 90s and looks like it\u2019s here to stay.<\/p>\n<p>Though I\u2019m reading that there is some backlash in Poland against <strong>Walentynki<\/strong>, it seems that the younger generation embraced the holiday whole-heartedly. For a few weeks my friends (granted, all are women) were busy discussing about what to get their boyfriends or husbands for <strong>\u015awi\u0119to Zakochanych<\/strong>. For those with foreign boyfriends or husbands, especially those from Anglo-Saxon countries, the celebration is almost obligatory.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s learn some obligatory phrases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kocham ci\u0119.<\/strong> \u2013 I love you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lubi\u0119 ci\u0119.<\/strong> \u2013 I like you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nie mog\u0119 bez ciebie \u017cy\u0107.<\/strong> &#8211; I can&#8217;t live without you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can add \u201c<strong>bardzo<\/strong>\u201d to the beginning of the first two sentences and get &#8220;I love\/like you very much.&#8221; When doing that, you also have to remember to move the pronoun &#8220;<strong>ci\u0119<\/strong>&#8221; BEFORE the verb &#8211; the sentence sounds better that way.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>mi\u0142o\u015b\u0107<\/strong> (<em>noun, fem., pl.<\/em> <strong>mi\u0142o\u015bci<\/strong>) \u2013 love<\/li>\n<li><strong>przyja\u017a\u0144<\/strong> (<em>noun, fem., pl.<\/em> <strong>przyja\u017anie<\/strong>) \u2013 friendship<\/li>\n<li><strong>dziewczyna<\/strong> (<em>noun, fem., pl.<\/em> <strong>dziewczyny<\/strong>) \u2013 technically, it means \u201ca girl,\u201d but used in a romantic context \u2013 girlfriend.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ch\u0142opak<\/strong> (<em>noun, masc., pl.<\/em> <strong>ch\u0142opaki<\/strong>) \u2013 technically, it means \u201ca boy,\u201d but used in a romantic context \u2013 boyfriend.<\/li>\n<li><strong>m\u0105\u017c<\/strong> (<em>noun, masc., pl.<\/em> <strong>m\u0119\u017cowie<\/strong>) \u2013 husband<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u017cona<\/strong> (<em>noun, fem., pl.<\/em> <strong>\u017cony<\/strong>) &#8211; wife<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/02\/cheamno_serce.jpg\" aria-label=\"Cheamno Serce\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-480\"  alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/02\/cheamno_serce.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/02\/cheamno_serce.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/02\/cheamno_serce-350x244.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBig lantern heart created in Che\u0142mno.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo: wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/02\/cheamno_serce-350x244.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/02\/cheamno_serce-350x244.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/02\/cheamno_serce.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Judging from the media and advertising you\u2019d almost believe that Walentynki (St. Valentine\u2019s Day) is a long-standing Polish tradition. It is not. When I was a high school student in the ancient days of&#8230; oh well, let\u2019s say, the late 80s (yes, I know, I am dating myself here) nobody ever heard about \u015awi\u0119to Zakochanych&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/swieto-zakochanych\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7612],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-walentynki"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}