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"If looks could kill I would stare at the Provost." can you help me translate?



AnnieRoseThreads: 3
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I was trying to make a joke and say, , I "If looks could killwould stare at the Provost." However, I had to work around my lack of vocabulary, and ended up saying third person instead of first, "Jeśli ktoś może zabić z wzrokiem, proszę, gapić się na rektor universytetu." (I think I said, "If someone can kill by looking, please stare at the Provost." - not quite what I meant, but it's as close as I could come.)

Unfortunately, I seem to be unable to ever get my case endings correct - whenever I am sure I did it right, it turns out wrong - so I have no confidence. I still need to write with a dictionary in one hand. Would someone please correct my errors, and if you can translate "If looks could kill..." (assuming that makes sense in Polish speech), I will learn something new.
peter_olsztynThreads: 8
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AnnieRose:
If looks could kill, I would stare at the Provost."

Jeśli wzrok mógłby zabijać popatrzyłabym na rektora universytetu.
SzwedwPolsceThreads: 13
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Joined: Feb 21, 09 		Edited by: SzwedwPolsce   Dec 2, 09, 20:35 /  #
conditional:
mógłby, popatrzyłabym

What you were looking for, Annie, was the conditional aspect of the verb, comparable to would + verb in English.
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