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| Pronounciation of Kwiatkowski | 3/28/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: How is Kwiatkowski pronounced in American English?
A: I am unable to answer your question as it is stated: "How is Kwiatkowski pronounced in American ...
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| names of family members | 3/24/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: can you tell me how to say: son/daughter/mother/father/niece/nephew? are there names for in laws? ...
A: Not all the terms in common use have connotation with either the maternal or paternal side. In fact ...
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| Kacprzak and Maciej | 3/19/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: Firstly I want to thank to you for this nice support. How I can read the surname Kacprzak? And also ...
A: Anarres Thanks for the nice words. My first name (which corresponds to Mathias or Matthias in ...
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| Polish Nickname for Michael | 3/15/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I am expecting a son and have chosen to name him Michael for my father. We would like to call him ...
A: Questions about nicknames are really tricky ones. The usual forms are: (in the brackets I give these ...
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| pronunciation and definition | 3/13/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I'm Polish from the Hamtramck area in Detroit. My great grandma could speak polish but spoke little ...
A: The name should be pronounced "gzhih-BOSS-key". Pronounce "zh" as in "Brezhnev" or as "s" in ...
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| Greetings on the occasion first child born! | 3/12/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: My Polish friend is due to have her first baby in a few weeks and I would like to write a message in ...
A: My proposal is: Gratulacje z okazji urodzenia Waszego pierwszego dziecka! Niech Wam ros'nie duz*e, ...
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| Correct Pronounciation | 3/11/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I am fifty years old and I am curious what the correct pronunciation of my own name is. I am ...
A: ir's very simple its's [gye-ROF-ski] OR [gye-ROS-ki] g as in good ye as in yet rof as in ...
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| Grandfather /Grandpa in Polish | 3/6/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: How do you spell (or say) Grandfather or Grandpa in Polish?
A: Grandfather = dziadek [pronounce: JAH-deck] Grandpa = dziadzio [pronounce: JAH-jaw] j like in Jew ...
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| Grandma | 3/2/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: Growing up we called our Grandma, Bochi, is this correct?
A: that was probably your family's private approach to the issue. It resembles what children do to the ...
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| Please Help | 1/24/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: Would you be kind enough to translate the following phrase for me..Million thanks!!!! Kochana!! Sto ...
A: Congratulations! Why? see below: "My love! [I wish you] 100 years on the occasion of your ...
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| How to spell a name | 1/24/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I used to work with a colleague who had a polish last name. I want to get in touch with him and need ...
A: I doubt if I can help you. English pronounciation (phonetic system) is VERY UNFIT to reproduce the ...
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| translation | 1/18/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: How do you say "very much" in polish
A: you say "bardzo", or "bardzo dużo" depending on the context. In "Thank you very much" it's ...
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| Grandmother's name | 1/16/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: My g-g-grandmother's name was Sophia Rhyhay, apparently a phonetic spelling. Do you know of a ...
A: While waiting for your answer I have made some searching on the Internet. Not much found (but see ...
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| Name of Lilje | 1/7/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I am trying to find out the root of the last name of Lilje. My great great grandfather was born in ...
A: I want to add a folow-up explaining a word on pronounciation. In the Northen Poland (Eastern ...
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| Nickname for Granddaughter | 1/6/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: both of my parents who are now deceased were Polish. I have a granddaughter who I call Little One. ...
A: I think the best translation of "Little One" for girls is such a situation is either "Malutka" or ...
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| translate dharma name | 1/4/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: Hey Macie, I recieved a dharma name when i took refuge in the buddha - it's wong-po (i'm pretty ...
A: I am sorry but I think I can't help. My dictionaries list "wang po" (in Wylie transcription written ...
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| name Trunko | 1/2/2008 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: His mother was from Warsaw, Poland, and his dad's family was Checoslavakian, but some say the name ...
A: It is hard to say (at least for me; my expertise does not go into the languages you have mentioned) ...
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| recipe name | 10/22/2007 | Mara |
Q: I have two recipes which I'm told are Polish and I'd like to know the Polish name for the dishes. ...
A: The first one, Honey Cake, is Piernik (pye-rnyck). When it comes to the second one, I know it but I ...
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| Name Definition | 10/15/2007 | Mara |
Q: I am so glad I found you. I am hoping you might be able to tell me the meaning of my Polish name. ...
A: Butka is a name that occurs in Poland nowadays. So everything seems to be fine here... "ka" does ...
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| Name Definition | 10/12/2007 | Mara |
Q: I am so glad I found you. I am hoping you might be able to tell me the meaning of my Polish name. ...
A: You're close. but means shoe or boot. "ki" suffix is added as an indication that something is small, ...
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| Spelling of a Polish name | 9/4/2007 | Mara |
Q: I was recently in the company of a beautiful polish woman who is called a name that might be ...
A: Jadwiga is a perfectly correct Polish name. You are also correct about it being an informal version ...
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| Nickname | 8/29/2007 | Mara |
Q: A friend of mine, whose name is Joseph, goes by the nickname Uju(sp?). Pronounced phonetically in ...
A: My guess it it comes from his name. The language of origin of the basic form doesn't seem clear, but ...
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| Origin of the name Bohm | 6/22/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: Is the surname Bohm German or passably Slavic?
A: The name is certainly German (in German: "Böhm", with the original meaning "inhabitant of Bohemia", ...
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| name last name. | 6/21/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: Maciej, I was reading up about what my last name meant in Polish, and all I could find was that ...
A: (Supplement added in the end, see PS.) the general idea that the Slavic names ending in -ski (or ...
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| polish nicknames | 6/20/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: As a tribute to my great grandfather, i want to go by a polish nickname. personally, i'm short. so ...
A: A typical Polish nickname for "short" or "small" is "mały" ("mal-y" = l-with-a-bar), pronounce ...
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| Polish words | 6/15/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I am making a Photo album/ scrap book as a witness tool and i need to put some Polish words in it.. ...
A: Here you are: *Family - Rodzina *Boarding School - (this notion does not function well in Polish, ...
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| Polish word | 6/15/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: My name is Gayle Moryl I am Polish but I never learned how to speak it very well could you tell me ...
A: Read under http://en.allexperts.com/q/Polish-Language-3388/ my previous answers to Patricia on "how ...
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| Polish Last name | 5/22/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: my Paternal Grandfather was killed in WWII, he was Polish, and after he died my grandmother ...
A: I suppose it is "Zapolski". Of course if...: 1) if your spelling of "suh" means "s" pronounced like ...
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| Polish | 5/20/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I want to know Polish yesterday. Why can't I just download it into my head? Well really. How much ...
A: You have really pulled my leg, you nasty boy ;-)) MAciej Thank very much for your help. I do live ...
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| Polish | 5/20/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I want to know Polish yesterday. Why can't I just download it into my head? Well really. How much ...
A: No, you are not right. I have never answered such question before. And I do not teach Polish to ...
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| pronunciation of 'kielbasa' | 5/20/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: Maciej, My grandparents came from, what was then, Austria-Hungary, from a town that was passed ...
A: Łapsze Wyżne or Wyżnie (older spelling; which might be the cause why you have written ...
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| pronunciation of 'kielbasa' | 5/19/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: Maciej, My grandparents came from, what was then, Austria-Hungary, from a town that was passed ...
A: There is no "Slavic" language. Slavic is a group of languages including Polish, Czech, Slovak, ...
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| Polish nouns + adjectives | 5/15/2007 | Mara |
Q: In English we have no gender for nouns/adjectives but in Polish there has to be agreement. What ...
A: When there are two items or more, the sentence should be in plural. In plural there are two genders. ...
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| babcia/dziadzio | 5/9/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I read your response to Patricia concerning the translation for grandmother "babcia" and grandfather ...
A: Polish is a very rich language as far as sentiments expression concerned. Therefore we have many ...
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| Russian Word | 5/8/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: How do you pronounce PATRIARSHY Gardens in Moscow? pah-tree-ARE-shee? Or something else. Thank you.
A: You are very, VERY close, the only thing are the nuances concerning the pronounciation of Russian -i ...
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| Łuki? | 5/5/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: Dzien dobry pan, I have the English name Luke which is Łukasz in Polish. Some people shorten that to ...
A: ukasz The way you write your name and nickname in Polish shows that you know quite a bit about our ...
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| we have an accordion band and I need to say | 4/13/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: ladies and gentleman brothers and sisters tonight we will sing dance play music
A: Henry it's: Panie i Panowie, bracia i siostry, dzi wieczór będziemy razem piewać, tańczyć i ...
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| 2 week intensive Polish courses in Poland - does it work? | 4/11/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I've learnt Polish for two years and I would describe myself as intermediate. Recently I heard about ...
A: I cannot doubt that in 2 weeks you can really learn SOMETHING. It only depends HOW MUCH you expect ...
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| how to say grandfather and grandmother | 4/11/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: I am a new grandmother and would like to use the Polish words for grandmother and grandfather. My ...
A: Congratulations on becoming grandmother! I know what that means - I have become grandfather a year ...
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| Want to learn French, German, Spanish, etc., in Polish or English | 4/5/2007 | Maciej St. Zięba |
Q: To Mr. Zieba. I know English and polish and want to learn German, French, maybe Spanish also. Or ...
A: It's nice to meet a "far relative" on www. In fact the name "Zieba" is so popular in Poland that on ...
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