Polish Nouns

Welcome to the third Polish lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Polish to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes ziemniaki

tomatoes pomidory

onions cebule

carrots marchewki

fruits owoce

apples jabłka

bananas banany

oranges pomarańcze

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Polish
do you have milk? [verb + noun] masz mleko?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] mam mleko i kawę
he has three apples [number + plural noun] ma trzy jabłka
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] ona ma tylko jedno jabłko
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] żyjemy w małym domu
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] lubię nasze śniadanie

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread chleb

milk mleko

butter masło

cheese ser

coffee kawa

sandwich kanapka

meat mięso

chicken kurczak

fish ryba

breakfast śniadanie

lunch lunch

dinner obiad

Conversation in Polish

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Polish
Do you speak (English/ Polish)? czy zna pan [pani] (angielski / polski)?
Just a little tylko trochę
I like Polish lubię polski język
Can I practice with you? czy mogę spróbować rozmawiać z panem [panią] (po polsku)?
How old are you? ile pan [pani] ma lat?
I'm thirty three years old mam trzydzieści trzy lata
It was nice talking to you miło było z panem [panią] porozmawiać!

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