{"id":629,"date":"2009-10-22T02:15:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T06:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=629"},"modified":"2009-10-22T02:15:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T06:15:59","slug":"readers-ask-i-answer-counting-things-in-polish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/readers-ask-i-answer-counting-things-in-polish\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers Ask &#8211; I Answer: Counting Things in Polish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to stay in bed and marinate under the covers for one more day (yes, my cold has morphed into a full-blown bronchitis now) but a reader\u2019s email made me crawl out to face the enemy. The email had that panicky and ominous tone making it sound as if the intergalactic victory of good over evil (read: Polish grammar) depended solely on me.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am, at your service.<\/p>\n<p>What the reader wanted was this: please tell me how to count (in Polish, of course) the following nouns: <strong>dziecko<\/strong> (child, neuter), <strong>nauczycielka<\/strong> (teacher, female), <strong>pisarz<\/strong> (writer, masculine), <strong>jesie\u0144<\/strong> (autumn, feminine), <strong>mysz<\/strong> (mouse, feminine), and <strong>s\u0142o\u0144<\/strong> (elephant, masculine). Though I am not entirely sure if the reader wanted <strong>s\u0142o\u0144<\/strong> (elephant) or <strong>s\u0142o\u0144ce<\/strong> (sun), so just in case I think I\u2019ll do both.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, I wrote back and told him to look up my previous posts on this subject, but he responded that this is the time when grammar explanations are not enough, he needs to see how it\u2019s actually done in practice. OK, fine by me. And actually, I just wanted to throw those words at you (all my readers in general) and see what you could come up with in terms of counting them from one to five. But since the email had the \u201cthe world is going to end on Thursday at 3PM if you don\u2019t help me\u201d tone, I thought I\u2019d just get up and do it myself.<\/p>\n<p>But why do I have this strange feeling that I\u2019m doing somebody\u2019s homework here, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, but here we go.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>dziecko<\/strong> (child) from one to five:<\/li>\n<li><strong>jedno dziecko, dwoje dzieci, troje dzieci, czworo dzieci, pi\u0119cioro dzieci<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>nauczycielka<\/strong> (female teacher) from one to five:<\/li>\n<li><strong>jedna nauczycielka, dwie nauczycielki, trzy nauczycielki, cztery nauczycielki, pi\u0119\u0107 nauczycielek<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>pisarz<\/strong> (writer, male) from one to five:<\/li>\n<li><strong>jeden pisarz, dw\u00f3ch pisarzy, trzech pisarzy, czterech pisarzy, pi\u0119ciu pisarzy<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>jesie\u0144<\/strong> (fall\/autumn, feminine) from one to five:<\/li>\n<li><strong>jedna jesie\u0144, dwie jesienie, trzy jesienie, cztery jesienie, pi\u0119\u0107 jesieni<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>mysz<\/strong> (mouse, feminine) from one to five (this is a tricky one and I hope I got it right):<\/li>\n<li><strong>jedna mysz, dwie myszy, trzy myszy, cztery myszy, pi\u0119\u0107 myszy<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>s\u0142o\u0144<\/strong> (elephant, masculine) from one to five:<\/li>\n<li><strong>jeden s\u0142o\u0144, dwa s\u0142onie, trzy s\u0142onie, cztery s\u0142onie, pi\u0119\u0107 s\u0142oni<\/strong> (and we have a whole circus!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>s\u0142o\u0144ce<\/strong> (sun, neuter) from one to five:<\/li>\n<li><strong>jedno s\u0142o\u0144ce, dwa s\u0142o\u0144ca, trzy s\u0142o\u0144ca, cztery s\u0142o\u0144ca, pi\u0119\u0107 s\u0142o\u0144c<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, dear reader, I hope this is what you had in mind. And I hope I managed before your doomsday deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to stay in bed and marinate under the covers for one more day (yes, my cold has morphed into a full-blown bronchitis now) but a reader\u2019s email made me crawl out to face the enemy. 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