Questions tagged [polish]
A West Slavic language spoken mainly in Poland.
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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 ...
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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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Are different "aspects" of a Polish verb the same lexeme or different lexemes?
Polish verbs have two "aspects", imperfective and perfective, which means you use a different word depending on whether the activity you're describing is ongoing or habitual, or if it's definite or ...
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What is the origin of the instrumental case of predicate in predicative nominals in Polish/Russian?
The syntax of predicative nominals and predicative adjectives in ancient IE languages and, as far as I know, almost every modern one :
Subject (NOMINATIVE) + copula + predicate (NOMINATIVE)
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