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More sentences on this in “Language in use”: Polish for care work

Words

57

Sentences

16

Words per sentence

3.6

in the vocabulary

100 %

measured level

A1

Reading time

1 min

Grammar in this text

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• gorączki nie mam

  After a negative comes the genitive: mam gorączkę, but gorączki nie mam. The genitive after negation: nie mam czasu →

• Ma pan gorączkę · Polecam panu

  pan declines: Ma pan (nominative), Polecam panu (dative). Polite address: pan, pani, państwo →

• boli mnie gardło

  The pronoun in the accusative: boli mnie, “… hurts”, literally “it hurts me”. Pronouns in every case: mnie, mi, go, niego →

The words from A2 up in this text

Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: all 2 of the 49 words in this text are at A2 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.

• karta

  card (bank card)

  A2

• polecać

  to recommend

  A2

The word lists for this text

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The verbs on this page, in every form: mieć · być · móc · pić · pomóc · kosztować · płacić · brać

Comprehension questions

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