A West Slavic language spoken mainly in Poland.
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How do you gloss a language with no definite or indefinite article?
Some languages have no definite or indefinite article, for example, I think, Polish.
So the Polish word kot could mean "a cat" or "the cat". So in a glossed example, and not knowing the context, how ...
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In Polish, how do people say “Call <name>” when giving their phone a command?
In phones, you now can use speech to do VAD (Voice Activated Dialing). As in, "Call Bob".
I was told that in Polish (pl-PL), it is more natural to say "Call Dawida" when the name is Dawid.
How ...
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Why do Polish and Belarusian have an atypical greeting if compared to other Slavic languages?
While chatting with a polish penpal, I've discovered that in Polish the expression for "good morning/good day/hello/good afternoon" varies if compared to the other Slavic languages; later I saw that ...
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Do some Slavic languages have an “extra” gender distinction for animate nouns?
I seem to recall hearing and reading that certain Slavic languages including Czech treat animate nouns as something like an extra gender. Even Wikipedia in some places counts more than three genders ...
