Adjective, verb, noun etc

tonykennyThreads: 21 Posts: 143 Joined: Aug 4, 08	Edited by: tonykenny Mar 9, 09, 12:28 / #
OK, A few months ago when I was fresh out of my 65 hours of intense Polish tuition I made a 'breakthrough' realising some relationships between the different parts of speech (word types). But, I didn't write down my findings and now I've forgotten. My question is this: are there any general rules regarding the types of words in Polish that might help me create a noun from a known werb of vice versa? For example, in English a driver drives, a swimmer swims, a heater make heat, or heats. of course, there are exceptions, like a cooker is not the person who cooks. any hints on this or other ways to expand vocab overnight would be great! thanks T

Rafal_1981	Mar 9, 09, 15:20 / #
tonykenny: For example, in English a driver drives, a swimmer swims, a heater make heat, or heats. of course, there are exceptions, like a cooker is not the person who cooks. Well, sometimes you can: a swimmer - swims => pływak - pływa a heater make heat => grzejnik-grzeje (or ogrzewa) a driver drives => well, you can say "kierowca-kieruje (pojazdem)" however in common use we say: "kierowca prowadzi (pojazd)"

cjjcThreads: 37 Posts: 463 Joined: Jul 26, 08	Apr 1, 09, 19:23 / #
tonykenny: A few months ago when I was fresh out of my 65 hours of intense Polish tuition Hi Tony, I was just wondering where you had 65 hours of tuition? Thanks.

tonykennyThreads: 21 Posts: 143 Joined: Aug 4, 08	Apr 2, 09, 14:47 / #
Varia school in Krakow, I had 2 different teachers there, the teaching methods of oen worked very well for me, the other didn't. Exercises like "Here's 40 words - guess what they mean" withou even tellign if they were nouns, verb, adjective or even what subject the were from, did not help. But, when I asked to change teachers, the situation was much improved. Anyway, go take a look at them. If they still have Magda teaching, she would be my teacher of choice. I also took their 'cultural program' which I found very relaxing and informative. The lunch time trips to Babacia Malina were fantastic too! http://www.varia-course.com/ You'll even find me in their gallery. I had a fantastic time there, wish i could go back and do it all again! T