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Jak się masz? / How are you?

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When we would like to ask someone “how are you?” in Polish language we would ask: “Jak się masz?”.

Typical answer to this question is “Dobrze, dziękuję, a ty?” (eng. “good, thank you, and you?”).

Depending on our mood, we can answer “Jak się masz?” question in many different ways, here are some examples:

Świetnie ! – Great!

Bardzo dobrze – Very good

Dobrze – Good

Nieźle – Not too bad

Tak sobie – So so

Bywało lepiej – It could be better

Źle – Bad

Bardzo źle – Very bad

Fatalnie! – Horrible!


Jak się masz?
Dobrze, dziękuję, a Ty?
Świetnie! Dzięki.

A ty, jak się masz? 🙂

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“BYĆ” = “to be”

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Today I would like to show you how to use “to be” verb with personal pronouns in Polish language. After that, you will be able to say for example “ I am Patrick”, “He is John”, “They are Irish” but in Polish of course 😉

Let’s start then with personal pronouns!

I am using m. = male and f. = female

General rules for many verbs conjugation in Polish language:

  • the verb is changing its ending with different personal pronouns
  • the core word stays usually the same
  • f.e.: I am = Ja jestem; You are = Ty jesteś; We are = My jesteśmy… The core word here will be “jest“.

Next we will move to our verb “to be” = “być”. It is a bit tricky verb as it changes to “jest…” as we conjugate it by each person, it doesn’t have to see anything with its basic form “być”. As we can see below:

You can use that construction to tell someone for example your name, nationality or gender:

“Jestem Sylwia, jestem Polką, jestem kobietą” / “I am Sylwia, I am Polish, I am a woman”.

Do you want to know more? Ask me!

I can tell you how to say your nationality! 🙂