http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/ PolishLanguageStudyGroup Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:36:02 GMT rjdodunski http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6551 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6551 Hello Reiner, According to my Nowy Slownik Fundacji Kosciuszkowskiej; "przesmazony" means "overcooked". Cheers Robert D Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:25:56 GMT RICHARD http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6550 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6550 What is the proper way to address a Polish police officer? This may sound insane, I understand. I still have not learned the proper way to address a Polish Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:55:06 GMT solecki@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6549 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6549 Hi Reiner, I never heard "przesmazyc" but "przysmazyc". I think that "smazyc" means "to fry", "usmazyc" means "to have fried". In my undesrtanding "przysmazyc" Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:09:33 GMT reiner.maciej http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6548 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6548 Hello everbody, in a recipe for how to make pizza I read that you can cover the pizza with fried button mushrooms (champignons) (przesmazone pieczarki - "z" in Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:58:36 GMT Misanthropos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6547 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6547 Yes, you are right, my bad. I was going to say: ..."chce~ wolnos'ci" and "pragne~ wolnos'ci" (both in genitive)... Cheers, Maciej 2010/2/1 Paul M. Prez Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:48:30 GMT Paul M. Prez http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6546 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6546 Hello Maciej, I wonder about what you wrote here... Maciej wrote: You would normally say "chce~ wolnos'ci" and "pragne~ wolnos'ci" (both in accusative), no Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:10:32 GMT Misanthropos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6545 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6545 Hello, I think Maciej may be right when he says that verbs of desire followed by a concrete noun can take either accusative or genitive, but if the noun is Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:06:36 GMT solecki@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6544 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6544 First correction of some typos. It should be: "Chcesz kawe?", "Chcesz kawy?", "Chcemy pokoju.". Also: there are two dias in "chec"(c and e with dia). Second: I Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:52:27 GMT reiner.maciej http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6543 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6543 Hello, I read, that chec (c with dia) normally has the genitive. But sometimes it may rule the accusative. And my grammar says, that the accusative occurs only Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:44:14 GMT RICHARD http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6542 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6542 ... Hello Reiner, Thank you for the real Polish words. The BYKI lessons seem to lean towards colloquial Polish (without offering an example of standard Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:52:24 GMT Misanthropos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6541 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6541 Hi Ignacio, I fully agree with what you said about the use of co/czego with various verbs. The difference is definitely in the fact that they rule different Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:45:47 GMT Misanthropos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6540 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6540 Hello, Yes, accusative would definitely sound much better in the sentence about coffee. In general, very funny story, but a bit too short. In my opinion, each Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:14:03 GMT reiner.maciej http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6539 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6539 Hello Richard, drapacz chmur is just a high building, a skyscraper, no matter of the content, wether in it there are offices, or appartments, shops, or Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:06:51 GMT RICHARD http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6537 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6537 My BYKI lessons use the term 'drapacz chmur' for 'office building'. Is this the common term for office building? I ask because while most cloud scrapers would Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:01:08 GMT Ignacio http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6536 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolishLanguageStudyGroup/message/6536 ... BTW, as regards the second sentence: Czarna kawa bez mleka i cukru. I would have expected: Czarną kawę bez mleka i cukru. But sometimes it seems to me