A1DialogueTravel1 min

W kawiarni

Paul orders coffee and cake in a café — politely, with pan and pani.

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

Words

40

Sentences

13

Words per sentence

3.1

in the vocabulary

100 %

measured level

A1

Reading time

1 min

Grammar in this text

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• Co dla pana

  Polite: pan instead of “you”, declined like a noun — dla pana “for you” (genitive after dla). Polite address: pan, pani, państwo →

• Proszę kawę z mlekiem · Dużą

  What you order is in the accusative: proszę kawę, dużą — the adjective follows suit. The accusative: kawę, brata, dom →

• dwadzieścia pięć złotych

  From five, what is counted is in the genitive plural: dwadzieścia pięć złotych. Numbers from nought to a thousand: jeden, dwa, pięć →

The words from A1 up in this text

Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: all 17 of the 29 words in this text are at A1 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.

• ciasto

  cake; dough, pastry

  A1

• dobry

  good

  A1

• duży

  big, large

  A1

• dwadzieścia

  twenty

  A1

• dzień

  day

  A1

• dziękować

  to thank

  A1

• jabłko

  apple

  A1

• jeden

  one, a

  A1

• kawa

  coffee

  A1

• mały

  small, little

  A1

• mleko

  milk

  A1

• pięć

  five

  A1

• prosić

  to ask (for), request

  A1

• płacić

  to pay

  A1

• razem

  together

  A1

• widzieć

  to see

  A1

• złoty

  złoty (currency)

  A1

The word lists for this text

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The verbs on this page, in every form: być · płacić

Comprehension questions

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