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  1. July 9th, 2004, 10:31 AM #1
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    Grammar

    I read that when speaking to a male or female in Polish you apply different endings to words, is this in addition to a case-system like Russian ?!
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  2. July 9th, 2004, 11:04 AM #2
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    Re: Grammar

    Quote Originally Posted by Ник
    I read that when speaking to a male or female in Polish you apply different endings to words, is this in addition to a case-system like Russian ?!
    Welcome to most European Languages 101
    Call to a hardware store: "I'm sure you know more about the caulk than I do...tell me...is there a taste to the caulk?".
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  3. July 12th, 2004, 10:28 PM #3
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    Re: Grammar

    Quote Originally Posted by Ник
    I read that when speaking to a male or female in Polish you apply different endings to words, is this in addition to a case-system like Russian ?!
    um, not really the case-system, it's the person-system, or however you call it. But yes, you do apply differnt endings. Example: Ona poszła (she went), on poszedł (he went), ona czytała (she was reading), on czytał (he was reading)
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  4. July 13th, 2004, 11:22 AM #4
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    Re: Grammar

    Quote Originally Posted by Ник
    I read that when speaking to a male or female in Polish you apply different endings to words, is this in addition to a case-system like Russian ?!
    The same story in Russian.
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  5. July 22nd, 2004, 03:32 AM #5
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    Not always when talking to a person. Only if you say something in the past tense (and other obvious cases I don't want to explain). But I translated 'I love you' (present tense mind you) for a friend and the translator asked 'man speaking to woman or woman speaking to man?'.
    That's when I went , hrmn, that's interesting.
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    well, the translator must've been weird 'cause I love you would be the same way for no matter which gender. It's always "Kocham cię".
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  7. July 22nd, 2004, 11:52 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by kamka
    well, the translator must've been weird 'cause I love you would be the same way for no matter which gender. It's always "Kocham cię".
    Perhaps he just wanted to sound extremely polite and translate it like "Kocham pani" or "kocham pana".
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  8. July 26th, 2004, 01:34 AM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by translations.nm.ru

    Perhaps he just wanted to sound extremely polite and translate it like "Kocham panią" or "kocham pana".
    yeah, well, I guess that's some option. translators can be so weird sometimes. [/b]
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  9. August 6th, 2004, 11:40 PM #9
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    Perhaps he just wanted to sound extremely polite and translate it like "Kocham pani" or "kocham pana".
    You should say Kocham panią (always with ACCUSATIVUS, not GENETIVUS). Kocham pani it sounds like I love your... (money, breasts etc.)
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