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- "Kocham weekendy!"
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According to the Polish alphabet and the sounds of their letters, shouldn't it either be pronounced "veekendy" or be written as "łeekendy"?
It is a loan word. Polish isn't 100% phonetic and occasionally loan words that are spelled the same are pronounced similar to their origin. Apparently that is why menu is pronounced strange, because it sounds more French that way.
It's a loan word, but I (personally) sometimes write it as "łikendy", which is a phonetical form in polish.
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"Type what you hear" : A ja słyszę " łikendy ", i nikt mi nie powie, że czarne jest białe a białe jest czarne !
Is it ok to use kochać when we talk about smth like weekends? In Ukrainian we can say it only about people (mężczyzna kocha kobietę, kobieta kocha dziecko), and weekendy my lubimy...
"lubimy" just means "we like".
Some natives dislike using "kochać" with things other than people, but in general it is used. "uwielbiać" may be the best option then, though.
If 'weekendy' is plural, surely 'weekend' is singular? Kocham weekend, 'I love the weekend'
Sorry, but I don`t understand your question. What means "LibDems" ? I am German.
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I love weekends! - Uwielbiam/Bardzo lubię sobotę i niedzielę!/Uwielbiam koniec tygodnia!/ Uwielbiam końcówkę tygodnia!/ Uwielbiam ostatnie dni tygodnia!
That's more like "end of the (work) week". So, to me that is like a synonym for Friday, or maybe Saturday.
"I love the weekend" in English idiom is equivalent to "I love weekends".
Well, still it's a change from plural to singular and we aren't very keen on accepting such grammatical changes...
I am not English. I just have to speak it due to its status and usage. If only Polish was used more...
you know that they actually tried looking for the polish word for weekend, but nothing came out of it http://okruchy.pl/ciekawostki/w-poszukiwaniu-polskiego-odpowiednika-weekendu/
I'm not the best with Polish, but to me I feel like the simple solution is just "tydzień końcowy"
Haha that's great. How would you mean end, as in, the end of, say, an object?
Sorry to break it to you, but actually every single word in every language originally comes from an other language.
Not true. Sometimes people just make up words. But all words have influence from other words and other languages.
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Maybe some languages don't even bother to create a word like "weekend". We just say Sunday! Don't make a big fuss out of it! XD
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Jellei gave me an accurate answer for the word weekend. In communist times in Poland there was NO weekend and so the word didnt exist. Pre WW11 there was school ( still is school in Europe on Sat or was until recently) and work on a Saturday. That's why I reckon Sunday = niedziela ( no work) because there was no school or work, you went to Church instead. Hence no weekend, only 1 restday. So there was no need for a word for weekend in Polish until the 80's when they adopted the English Weekend!!
I need to add that work-free Saturdays were gradually introduced in the early 70s and the Polish word "weekend" was already in use back then. So, the term actually became popular during the PRL (Polish People's Republic) and not just after 1989.
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Thanks so much Alik. Language and its development is SO interesting. I wish people would appreciate the inherent changes over time, rather than criticise or make shortsighted comments.
Tak, ale to jest bardzo dziwne, lepiej powiedz koniec tygodnia, wtedy będzie poprawnie. It does mean "the last week", but it could be the last week of a long vacation.
