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ZiemowitThreads: 10 Posts: 1,063 Joined: May 8, 09 ♂	Jan 31, 10, 20:08 #61
Loser is often nieudacznik in Polish.

gumishuThreads: 17 Posts: 3,943 Joined: Apr 6, 09 ♂	Feb 1, 10, 11:44 #62
Bzibzioh: I never know how to translate loser why not translate it as cienias - it doesn't always fit but does fit in many usages

frdThreads: 8 Posts: 1,956 Joined: Feb 3, 09 ♂	Feb 1, 10, 12:50 #63
Bzibzioh: I never know how to translate loser przegraniec, przegraniec życiowy, gołodupiec

ZiemowitThreads: 10 Posts: 1,063 Joined: May 8, 09 ♂	Feb 1, 10, 13:06 #64
Ha, ha, przegraniec is excellent, perfectly matching the English "loser", except that it is not used much, well, I've never heard it myself. Gołodupiec is immediately associated with someone without money or goods, so he is certainly a loser, but the first meaning is a "person without resources".

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Feb 1, 10, 13:22 #65

Of course there is no one translation of 'loser', it's not any kind of basic semantic category like 'red' or 'good'. There are a number of ways to translate it depending on context.

Nieudacznik is good for a lot of the time, but other times frajer, dupek or something else might be appropriate. The range of uses of particular words in Polish stubbornly won't match up and there's nothing that can be done about it.

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