"Niebieskie dzwonki"

Translation: Blue bells

[AnCatDubh]

You were expecting dirty jokes about having blue bells when you wrote this, didn’t you, Team Polish.

[immery]

there is nothing dirty about bells in Polish

[AnCatDubh]

And there’s nothing dirty about cutting cheese in any language other than English AFAIK, but references to the action appear in several courses, often in contexts that make it sound awkward in English (e.g. ‘You cut the cheese in the elevator’ in the Portuguese course).

[immery]

Oh, ok I get it.
And for the reference ice cream and eggs and bumblebees are "dirty" in Polish

[AnCatDubh]

Oh? How so? I know ‘eggs’ is what you call balls (this applies in Russian, German, and Hebrew too), but what about the other two?

[immery]

well puszczać bąki= cut cheese.
and make an ice-ream (singular) is oral sex on man

[AnCatDubh]

What does the former mean literally?

[immery]

I do not know how to translate but look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xw1p_Ov62M

Also release bumblebee/ horsefly

[alantrousers]

Bluebells are a kind of flower in English. (The famous Bluebell steam railway is named after them). Is this the same in Polish?

[immery]

I am not good at flowers, but I think not. My little google and wikipedia reaserch tells me we have specific botanic names for all of flowers that can be called bluebells in English.

We call some flowers dzwonki (small bells) and dzwoneczki (little small bells) and some variants, and when they are blue we call them niebieskie dzwonki, but it is just bells that are blue, not some set expression.

[Gallos80]

I'm not a native English speaker. I immediately thought of the song "The blue bells of Scotland".

[DerrickMcClure1]

"Bluebell" as the name of a flower is written as one word!

[Lingimen]

I only saw zolte dzwonki.

[maciejbubniak]

do they come any other way

[Christian7652]

Dzwonki seems to be the plural of dzwonek,not dzwon.the plural of dzwon would be dzwoni?

[alik1989]

Dzwony. You can check almost any inflection on wiktionary.

[MarkKulka]

My dictionary translates "dzwonki" as "ringtones." Another meaning it gives is "gills."

Blue ringtones? Blue gills?

[Jellei]

"ringtones" is surely a correct translation of "dzwonki", but what would even "blue ringtones" be? ;)

"gills"? The ones that fish have? I am not aware of such meaning of "dzwonki", fish have "skrzela".

[JerryMcCarthy99]

Perhaps "dzwonko" is being thought of here; in culinary usage, a piece of fish, although not specifically a "gill".

https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/dzwonko

[Jellei]

:o

Never heard this word, interesting.

[JerryMcCarthy99]

A fairly specialist vocabulary :-) .

[MaryCarson15]

So what is the plural for bell?

[alik1989]

You seem to ask a lot of those questions lately. I assume you're familiar with wiktionary?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dzwonek#Declension