Why Polish Feminine Nouns Can Be Confusing
Adam’s post about feminine endings for occupations and positions held by women made me think about feminine gender nouns in general. That proposed e
Posts Tagged Grammar
Two Ears and Two Eyes
I was writing something yesterday, in Polish, as it happens, and I almost had a nervous breakdown. Why? Plural forms of “number + noun” combinatio
Verbs Expressing Feelings and the Nouns that Follow Them
So, what were we talking about last time? Ah yes, verbs that express emotions. You know, stuff like love (kochać), hate (nienawidzieć), like (lubić
Adverbs of Time
One of the readers (What would I do without you guys? I’d have nobody to hurry me up!) reminded me that I had promised to continue our little adverb
The Oh-So-Easy Adverbs
We haven’t covered even a smidget of grammar in a really long time, and I’m sure that by now you all must be really missing all those declensions,
Readers Ask – I Answer: Counting Things in Polish
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’s
What do you call a person who lives in Bielsko-Biała?
In his comment to the Bielsko-Biała post Mchl posed an interesting question: what do you call a person who lives in Bielsko-Biała? Yeah, indeed… A
On Bielsko-Biała and Białystok
Polish declensions. We all love them, right? All the funky case endings, exceptions, and then exceptions to exceptions. Life in Polish is never boring
