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Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Ni, si, ci, zi and dzi at the end of words are always pronounced like before consonants, that is as ńi, śi, ći, źi, dźi, with a full i. :) = [pańi]
The word pań also exists, it's the genitive...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Unlike Russian, Polish has the verb 'to have':
mieć ('to have', present tense)
1sg. ja mam
2sg. ty masz
3sg. on, ona, ono ma
1pl. my mamy
2pl. wy macie
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Everything you wrote is for both genders. :) Jak się masz? uses the 2sg (masz), so it's informal. BTW, I'll write you about politeness in Polish:
You can adress a person either with the 2sg...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Mersi, Anna! :) Din nefericire sau am deja cunoscut pe o parte linkurilor, sau nu au fost forumuri, sau... nimeni nu mai contribuie acolo și cele mai proaspăte posturile sunt deja foarte vechi... :)...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
rodzinie is dative sg or locative sg of rodzina,
wieczór, yes, it's 'evening' (remember, we don't have the letter v, and before i ć loses the little line = ci),
moje is 'my', either neuter sg...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Let's learn something new: :)
być ('to be', present tense):
1. (ja) jestem
2. (ty) jesteś
3. (on, ona, ono) jest
1pl. (my) jesteśmy
2pl. (wy) jesteście
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Hmm, poate știe cineva... :confused: Cunoașteți forumuri române, unde se discută despre muzica clasică? Prin Google am căutat, dar nu am găsit nimic interesant.
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Translations: :)
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie.
'In Szczebrzeszyn [a Polish town] a beetle buzzes in the reed.'
Przyszedł Herbst z pstrągami.
'Herbst came with the trouts.'
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Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Thank you 1000 times! (cum se o zice în română?) :) Da, am înțeles tot (totul?). :)
Ah, numai un lucru: nu sunt italian, mă numesc Gustaw, nu Gustavo. ;)
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Ahh, da, înțeleg. :p Propoziția mea era proastă. :D Mersi!
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Ha, that's not a solution! :p You know what I meant. Now I think it's aceasta, because of this sentence (you probably remember it too): Nici pe asta nu am știut-o., and not: Nici pe ăsta nu l-am...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Nu, mulțumesc frumos. :) Și da, am înțeles. :)
Și it/this englez în română este acesta sau aceasta, când nu are genul? De exemplu: You’re stupid and I don’t like it :) este în română Ești prost și...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Mersi! :) Cred că am înțeles, dar am două întrebări:
1) Cum pot să folosesc imperfectul aici? Dacă m-interesa nu este forma corectă, mă interesa este corecta...?
2) Dacă l-auzi este incorect...
Thread: Can Anyone Take On Polish?? (23 Replies, 14,147 Views) by Gustaw
In the song, the fragment "tam / Gdzie czekają mnie / Tam przyjaciół kilku mam, od lat" clearly means that what's awaiting him is this group of old friends (tam, gdzie czekają mnie / Tam przyjaciół...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Here are some funny sentences! :)
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie. (the most popular Polish tongue twister, from a poem called Chrząszcz ["The Cricket"])
Przyszedł Herbst z...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
:D OK, now i get it. :D
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Sorry I underestimated you! ;) ;)
BTW, Rodzina is a very strange family name, I've never met or heard of anybody with this name... Quite original. :)
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
De ce nu pot să scriu m-interesa (am vrut să folosesc imperfectul... :p)? Și m-a interesat? :)
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Salut! :) Pe asta am știut-o (acum bine? :p), dar m-interesa pronunțarea corectă – dacă este încă corect a spune (nu a scrie) [sînt/sânt] în loc de [sunt]. Deja știu că nu. :)
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
I'm glad you liked it, I like it too. ;)
If you're comparing rodzina to the Russian родина, unfortunately they don't have the same meaning - the latter means 'fatherland', while the former -...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
To be exact, it's a (Polish) o followed immediately by a short nasal (Polish) u = [oũ]; if we try to compare it to French vowels, it's similar to something between French on and an. However, I think...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
To be exact, it's neither, but yeah, the Russian ы is similar to y. I quote: "It is unrounded (like i, e, a and unlike o, u), high (like i, u and unlike e, a, o) and central (like a and unlike front...
Thread: i dont know the lenguage of this song ! (16 Replies, 7,617 Views) by Gustaw
Not in Polish, in Polish the plural (nominative) is kurwy. :)
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Nici pe aceasta nu am știt. :) [am scris bine?]
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Și încă în 1984 „sînt” era corect? Ciudat! :) Dar mersi pentru explicația!
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Hm... Atunci acum trebuie să scrie „sunt”, nu "sînt", și pronunța... [sunt] ori [sânt]? Sau nu poate să-l pronunța [sânt]?
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Am o întrebare. :) Înțeleg că nu pot să vorbesc și scriu „sînt” („sânt”?) în loc de „sunt”, dar de ce micul dicționar meu român-polon din 1984 scrie „sînt”? Asta e un arhaism? De ce acum e deja...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Hm, for me împânzit de amar makes sense...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Did I forget to mention that many, many Poles put the accent in the wrong place, or pronounce the ę wrong? :D It's a language you (some people) speak for 60 years and still commit mistakes every day....
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Yep, these basic words are really very, very similar, which is quite understandable. :) With Czechs and Slovaks we can talk without any difficulties, each one in his own language, and understand each...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
LOL, mersi. :D
O întrebare bună, dexonline.ro nu știe nimic despre „inpunzi”....
Thread: i dont know the lenguage of this song ! (16 Replies, 7,617 Views) by Gustaw
My etymology dictionary of Polish by prof. Wiesław Boryś tells me that in Serbo-Croatian kurva means 'w-h-o-r-e'. The word comes from a Proto-Slavic *kury, *kurъve and is common among Slavic...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Oh, just one more thing, as Lt. Columbo used to say!
The accent is (almost always) on the next to the last syllable. :)
Sure! Let's start with the goodmornings and stuff:
Good news: "good...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
I forgot to mention that i between a consonant and a vowel is most often only the marking of the consonant's softness - if you can hear an i there at all, it's so short it doesn't constitute a...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Yeah, I understood the meaning of your post, but I didn't understand the meaning of the "caci" word. :)
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Ce înseamnă asta? :)
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
alveopalatals - sz, cz, ż, rz, dż
palatals - ś, ć, ź, dź (everything with the little line*)
Dz - just regular d+z pronounced together. :)
*There are two important things about these...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Ăsta e o parte limbiilor foarte importantă. :p
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
The scientific classification and the explanation of pronunciation is perfect, though the Polish cz is only similar to the English ch in church. But generally yes, this is it. :)
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Hey, I've met Hungarians, as well as one Czech girl, who studied Polish philology, so it's doable! :P
Unfortunately, I don't know how it's in Serbo-Croatian, so I can't help you... :)
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
Of course, with pleasure!
Maybe at the beginning you should learn how to read the letters. After that, we could concentrate on how to join them. ;)
a - like, say, Italian or Romanian a
ą -...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Oo, interesant. Atunci în româna este o situație identică ca în polona, unde „mać” există acum numai în înjurătura „kurwa [twoja/jego/jej] mać” (mama [ta/sa] e o c***ă)...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Știu, știu, dar eu vorbesc despre... Old Church Slavonic language :), în care ‘mamă’ era ‘matь’; de exemplu în polona veche acesta era ‘mać’.
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Nu am scris bine? "forma nominativului a X"?
Nu numai Google, tot dictionare.com și dexonline.ro... :)
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Aa! :)
Ce este forma nominativului a "măti"? Mat? Vine din sl. matь? :)
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Natural nu am înțeles. :) „Morții tăi” înseamnă „your dead ones”...? :)
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Da da, știu firește că este împrumutat (ha, un cuvânt nou :P) din franceza, numai nu știam dacă este colocvial. :) Dar merci/mersi. :)
Acum eram la [thread]-ul cu limba polonă, aici pe forumul,...
Thread: Polish lesson & grammar (58 Replies, 18,924 Views) by Gustaw
What a shame no one is learning Polish any more... :)
"Czyś widział" is correct, a bit archaic, OR expressive (e.g. "Coś ty zrobił!?" vs. "Co zrobiłeś?" - the 1st one is a looot more...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Încă nu. :)
Mulțumesc! („mersi” este colocvial...?)
Acum deja înțeleg, dar acea propoziție mi-se pare puțin ciudată. :) Atunci, pot să zic „Studiez filologiile ungare și polone” ori...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,216 Views) by Gustaw
Din nefericire nu am prieteni românești, dar am un american - Google. :)
Nu înțeleg, dar pesemne tu ai dreptate... Pentru mine: Studiez (una) filologie ungurească și (una) filologie poloneză =...