PL Po polsku

Polish grammar, explained simply

Written by a foreigner who learned it the hard way - short cards, real tables, native audio. Each topic has interactive practice in the free app.

Grammar Cases

• 🏁Mianownik (Nominative)
  The dictionary case: the subject of the sentence
• 📦Dopełniacz (Genitive)
  The 'of / no / from' case: absence, possession, quantity
• 🎁Celownik (Dative)
  The 'to / for' case: indirect objects and how you feel
• 🎯Biernik (Accusative)
  The direct object case: what you eat, buy, love, see
• 🔧Narzędnik (Instrumental)
  The 'with / by' case: means, transport, and being someone
• 📍Miejscownik (Locative)
  The location case: where things are, what you talk about
• 📣Wołacz (Vocative)
  The address case: calling someone by name or title

Describing People

• 🎭Przymiotniki (Adjectives & Traits)
  Describing people: the 'oni' plural for character traits
• 💼Zawody (Professions)
  How professions change for groups of men (the 'oni' plural)
• 🧭Zaimki (Pronouns & Determiners)
  mój, ten, jaki - pointing and owning in Nominative
• ✈️Narodowości (Nationalities)
  The tricky 'oni' plurals for 15 common nationalities in Poland
• ✅Każdy i Wszyscy (Every vs All)
  każdy takes a singular verb, wszyscy a plural - plus the wszystko trap

Politeness

• 🙋Pan i Pani (Formal address)
  When to use pan/pani instead of ty - and the third-person rule that trips everyone up
• 👥Panowie, Panie, Państwo (Plural formal address)
  Addressing a group formally - and the past tense where the three forms split
• ✨Tryb przypuszczający (Conditional)
  Chciałbym, czy mógłby pan - the -bym ending that turns blunt into polite
• 🙂Zdrobnienia (Diminutives)
  Kawka, chwileczkę, piwko - how Polish shrinks words to sound warm
• ✉️Korespondencja (Formal writing)
  Emails, cover letters, and the Witam trap

Also on Po polsku: slang, idioms & proverbs - the Polish they don't teach in class.

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