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.

Pizza - Pizza
- easy
Music - Muzyka
- pretty close to English
Wine - Wino
- the English slang!
Water - Woda
- one to learn!

Think about how you would say 'mineral water' and 'natural water' - both adjectives here end 'al' so remember the transfer rule for English words with this ending.

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!

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

He is good	q2\|On jest dobry

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 mineral water?