Polish Grammar - Being Good, he and she

Let's pull the grammar we have learnt together by learning how to describe things and people as good as well as picking up some new easy to learn vocab

Good - Dobry

This is the base word (how we would find it in the dictionary) which is in it's masculine form. We already know that it might also be

Dobra
- when describing feminine nouns
Dobre
- when describing neuter nouns

Have a think about the feminine and neuter nouns you know and describe them as 'good' out loud - e.g. dobre jedzenie.

Let's pick up some more easy to learn vocab. Spot the gender by looking at the last letter. Then try to get the 'dobry' sentence below each one correct.

Moment - Moment
- easy
A good moment -
Pizza - Pizza
- also easy
Good pizza -
Music - Muzyka
- pretty close to English
Good music -
Wine - Wino
- the English slang!
Good wine -
Water - Woda
- one to learn!
Good water -

In the last lesson we also saw the word for 'she' - 'ona'. But what about 'he'

On - On

To remember On/Ona think about he/she. 'He' has two letters, so does 'on'. She has three letters, so does 'ona'.

We can also see that 'ona' ends in 'a'. Another reminder that things which end in 'a' are feminine!

So with 'he' obviously being masculine how would you say:

He is good -

Adjectives and Nouns

Sort the adjectives and nouns below into their correct genders.

Drag and drop all the dark blue boxes to their correct locations

Make sure your sound is turned on to hear the audio during this exercise

Think out the Polish

Practice getting the endings of 'dobry' right

(Answers are case sensitive!)

Make sure your sound is turned on to hear the audio during this exercise

A good moment	q2\|Dobry moment

Good pizza	q2\|Dobra pizza

Good music	q2\|Dobra muzyka

Good wine	q2\|Dobre wino

Good water	q2\|Dobra woda

He is good	q2\|On jest dobry

It is a good moment	q2\|To jest dobry moment

It is good pizza	q2\|To jest dobra pizza

It is not good food	q2\|To nie jest dobre jedzenie

She is a good woman	q2\|Ona jest dobra kobieta

I have good wine	q2\|Mam dobre wino

I think that it is a good color	q2\|Myślę, że to jest dobry kolor

Do you think that it is good food?

I like good wine	q2\|Lubię dobre wino

I think that it is not good music

I think that he is not good	q2\|Myślę, że on nie jest dobry

Do you think that it is toxic water?