2015/11/26

How to Express Your Impressions and Feelings in Polish. Exclamations.

Sometimes you want to express your spontaneous feelings or first impressions. Positive or negative. I mean situations when we need exclamations as: "what a terrible day!", "what a pretty girl!" and so on. How to express your likes and dislikes in Polish?
The easiest way to do that in Polish is to use a word "jaki" before an adjective with a noun which describe your feeling towards the object.
Let's take the second example: "What a pretty girl!".
In Polish: "Jaka ładna dziewczyna!"

Use a word "jaki" before masculine nouns. Jaki okropny dzień! (What a terrible day!)
Use "jaka" before feminine nouns. Jaka fajna kawiarnia! (What a cool café!)
Use a word "jakie" before neutral nouns.   Jakie duże miasto! (What a big city!)

 Do you want to sound more like native, more informal? You can use a word "ale" instead of "jaki (jaka, jakie").

ale + adjective + noun !

Ale ładna dziewczyna! (What a pretty girl!) = Jaka ładna dziewczyna! 
"Ale" means also "but". (On jest bogaty, ale nudny. He is rich but boring)

Let's take some examples with pictures:

- Niezła koszulka!
- Dzięki!

- Not bad t-shirt!
- Thanks!

(we don't add words like "jaki" or "bad" before
a word "niezły" - it's a kind of an exception)



- Ale super app!
 (What an awesome/cool app!)

Remarks: 1."app" (taken from English) is a masuline word 2. an adjective "super" is untypical and it doesn't change form when we use it with feminine and neutral nouns:
"super książka" (an awesome book), "to miasto jest super!) (this city is awesome!)






- Ale fajna piosenka!
(What a cool song!)
















- Ale nudna książka!
(What a boring book!)







Jaki okropny wypadek!
(- What a terrible car accident!)

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- Jaki słodki piesek!
- Luna, nie! Nie!!! (Luna is, of course, a name of the dog)

(- What a sweet doggy!
- Luna, no! No!!!)


Here are recordings with dialogues and expressions from the pictures above:




Remember that endings of adjectives are different for describing masculine, feminine and neutral nouns.
Usage of masculine adjectives: use an adjective from dictionary (without any changes),
Usage of feminine adjectives: add a feminine ending - "-a"instead of a masculine -y or - i (for example - big is "duży" for masculine nouns and "duża" for feminine nouns).

Usage of neutral adjectives: add a neutral ending -e instead of  masculine - y or -i (duże - neutral instead of the masculine "duży").

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