Polish
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2.9
- noun
- /ˈpɒlɪʃ/
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polaco
- In 1891, May Day celebrants could hear speeches in German, Czech, and Polish, in addition to English.
- Polish as a language
Then you have the Slavic languages like Russian, Polish, right?
- Then you have the Slavic languages like Russian, Polish, right?
- So we say the Ukraine because in Russian and in Polish you can say Nah ukurayne.
- When I was a little kid, it was read to me in Polish.
- But because I speak Polish, then there was no issue to learn that stuff.
- But yeah, she was just very, very proud that she taught her daughter's Polish.
- So this idea didn't take off because it was a piece of research written in Polish and very few people knew about it.
Examples
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Mickiewicz wrote, of course, in Polish, which was his mother tongue.
Academic text (2004) -
We spoke Yiddish, German, Polish, French and Flemish in my home.
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But because I speak Polish, then there was no issue to learn that stuff.
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With fewer and fewer Polish language classes, Polish was, in time, no longer mandatory in the school program.
Academic text (1994) -
So this idea didn't take off because it was a piece of research written in Polish and very few people knew about it.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, as many school lessons were conducted in Polish as in English.
Academic text (1994) -
Speeches during parish celebrations were made in Polish, and Polish theater performances were held.
Academic text (1994) -
Then she shouted down the stairs, telling my father in Polish that he'd better hurry.
Fiction book (1990) -
But we learned one word in Polish, one word she said for me, Jin kuya kuya.
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Many people in the community speak Polish as their first language.
Synonyms
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4.0
A language spoken in Poland and by Polish people around the world
Idioms
- Offensive
You cannot make something very bad look good no matter how much you try
Compounds
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1.8
A colored or clear paint you put on fingernails and toenails to give them color and shine
- Specialized
A very shiny finish you make on wood by rubbing on thin coats of shellac mixed with alcohol
- Specialized
A way to write math with numbers before the sign so no parentheses
- Slur
A confused, badly organized practice for leaving a building in an emergency
- Specialized
A way of writing math expressions without parentheses where a math sign like + or − comes before the numbers
The group in Poland that makes laws and has two houses, the Sejm and the Senate
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Polish for the language is named after the country Poland and the people called Poles, who once used a word meaning 'people of the fields'. So Polish is the language spoken by people from Poland.