{"id":705,"date":"2010-03-12T23:52:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=705"},"modified":"2010-03-13T13:28:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T13:28:47","slug":"705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/705\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking About Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/vacationing-po-polsku\/\">Adam\u2019s last post<\/a> about different vacation options in Poland made me think about travel in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podr\u00f3\u017ce<\/strong> (travels, journeys, trips) is a plural noun. Singular \u2013 <strong>podr\u00f3\u017c<\/strong> (feminine).<br \/>\nAnd <strong>podr\u00f3\u017cowa\u0107<\/strong> (to travel) is the verb we need here.<br \/>\nSo, what do you call a person that travels? <strong>Podr\u00f3\u017cnik<\/strong>, but that implies someone who travels seeking excitement, adventure and really wild things in unexplored lands. Someone who just goes somewhere by <strong>PKP<\/strong>, that\u2019s \u201c<strong>podr\u00f3\u017cny<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Though from what I\u2019m seeing and hearing, all the hip and cool kids who like to travel use the word \u201c<strong>wyprawa<\/strong>\u201d these days. Literally it means an expedition, and personally I\u2019m not fond of hearing that someone is planning a \u201c<strong>wyprawa<\/strong>\u201d to Koh Samui in Thailand to sit on the beach and drink cocktails with little paper umbrellas in them. In my eyes, that\u2019s not \u201c<strong>wyprawa<\/strong>\u201d, but \u201c<strong>wycieczka<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wycieczka<\/strong> (feminine, plural: <strong>wycieczki<\/strong>) can be any trip of any length, but generally (at least in my eyes) does not imply any hardships along the way the way \u201c<strong>wyprawa<\/strong>\u201d would. Or maybe I\u2019m simply a snob when it comes to travel.<\/p>\n<p>And then we have these two confusing verbs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>zwiedzi\u0107<\/strong> (<strong>zwiedza\u0107<\/strong>, <em>imperfective<\/em>), and<\/li>\n<li><strong>odwiedzi\u0107<\/strong> (<strong>odwiedza\u0107<\/strong>, <em>imperfective<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>odwiedzi\u0107<\/strong> \u2013 to visit.<br \/>\nYou can \u201c<strong>odwiedzi\u0107<\/strong>\u201d your <strong>babcia<\/strong> in <strong>Pcim Dolny<\/strong>, or you can <strong>odwiedzi\u0107<\/strong> Tokyo or Paris.<\/p>\n<p>And once you are in Tokyo or Paris, then what you want to do is \u201c<strong>zwiedza\u0107<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>zwiedza\u0107<\/strong> \u2013 to engage in the activity of sightseeing, to see the sights<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>zwiedzi\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) implies not just sightseeing, but actually the whole enchilada of traveling and seeing a place. For example:<br \/>\n<strong>Zwiedzi\u0142am Tajlandi\u0119.<\/strong><br \/>\nThat would suggest that I visited more than just Koh Samui and in fact traveled around and saw a bit more of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Confusing? Yes, it is. Even for me. And frankly, instead of talking about it, I would much rather go somewhere. Preferably somewhere warm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam\u2019s last post about different vacation options in Poland made me think about travel in general. Podr\u00f3\u017ce (travels, journeys, trips) is a plural noun. Singular \u2013 podr\u00f3\u017c (feminine). And podr\u00f3\u017cowa\u0107 (to travel) is the verb we need here. So, what do you call a person that travels? 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