{"id":639,"date":"2009-11-14T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T01:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=639"},"modified":"2009-11-14T21:12:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T01:12:47","slug":"useful-expressions-spoko-spoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/useful-expressions-spoko-spoko\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Expressions – Spoko, spoko"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend asked me a very theoretical question, and it went more or less like this:
\n“OK, let\u2019s say that, theoretically of course, I am going to be visiting Poland around Christmas, or at the very least – Greenpoint. What Polish words would I hear most frequently?”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOh, you mean like the k-word?\u201d<\/em> was my reply.
\n\u201cNo, not really, I mean like words that you can actually spell out on your blog without getting in trouble.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ahhhh\u2026 OK, let me think then\u2026<\/p>\n

Hmmm\u2026 so if you just happen to be listening to random people\u2019s random conversations, what would you hear most often? (Apart from all the words that Poles are seemingly very fond of using and which I can\u2019t include in here.)<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s always \u201ccze\u015b\u0107<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 the universal Polish greeting when \u201cdzie\u0144 dobry<\/strong>\u201d seems too official.
\nThere are always \u201cPan<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cPani<\/strong>\u201d, as in \u201cPanie Waldku<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cPani Aniu<\/strong>\u201d, etc\u2026 that\u2019s how we tend to address each other when using first names only seems either too rude or too familiar.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s \u201cspoko, spoko<\/strong>\u201d. I have to confess, I like \u201cspoko, spoko<\/strong>” and use it a lot. Maybe even too much, according to some people.<\/p>\n

So, what is \u201cspoko, spoko<\/strong>\u201d?
\nSpoko<\/strong> is shortened version of \u201cspokojnie<\/strong>\u201d when used to calm someone down, as in \u201cit\u2019s OK<\/em>\u201d, \u201cit\u2019s all right<\/em>\u201d, or even \u201ctake it easy<\/em>.\u201d
\nSpokojnie<\/strong> itself is an adverb and means \u201ccalmly<\/em>\u201d, \u201cquietly<\/em>\u201d and so on, you get the idea. The adjective it came from is \u201cspokojny<\/strong>\u201d and here it is in all its glorious forms:<\/p>\n