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Herbata potrzebuje mleka

There are a couple of interesting phrases in the last cartoon worth looking at again.

Herbata potrzebuje mleka

This is not a spelling mistake ('e' instead of 'ę' at the end of 'potrzebuje').

This is the way we would say he/she/it needs

Marek is saying that 'tea needs milk' (although there would be plenty of Polish people who disagree with him)!

We'll be covering the he/she/it forms of verbs soon.

Szukam i szukam

This way of saying 'I search and I search' is common with many Polish verbs in the same way that we say in English phrases like 'I try and I try'

Repeating the verb twice emphasizes that you are doing the action a lot.

Listen out for these 'double verb' phrases in every day conversation!

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