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Genitive of nouns
Foreigners learning Polish know that cases are the most difficult part ofour language. First I would like to console all the students for whom cases are acause of tears and frustration. Cases are the last thing that foreigners normallylearn to use properly. Even those students who speaks fluent Polish, makesome mistakes when it comes to [...]
How to decline names and surnames in Polish?
Spelling of names and surnames in Polish is one of the most challengingproblems in our language. This is the reason I decided to make a little overviewillustrating this problematic issue. My students are always surprised andshocked when they realize that sometimes their name has five forms. Forexample:Nominative - To jest John. (This is John).Genitive - [...]
“TO GO…”
In Polish we have several verbs of motion which are always translated into English as “to go”. Everything depends on whether we are going somewhere on foot or if we are planning to use machines with wheels such as buses, cars, bicycles, motorbikes, trams, the metro, or taxis. For example, if we want to say: [...]
When Polish makes you dizzy
When you start learning Polish and you take it seriously, one of the symptoms you can have is… headache (in Polish: ból głowy). When my students complain that all the grammar exceptions give them a headache, I am really happy because it occurs to me (przychodzi mi do głowy) that they are doing very well [...]