"Myślę o nim."

Translation: I am thinking about him.

[RadhaTereska]

I try listening very carefully for the ę at the end of words (like myslę) and can't ever hear it. Does it get cut off in common speech?

[immery]

If you are up for challenge, here is Polish radio audition about this:

http://www.polskieradio.pl/9/305/Artykul/275142,Wymowa-e

[jalarkar]

In common speech it is often not pronunced or is pronunced weakly if ę is the last letter of a word. But it depends. I hear older people use more complete ę sound, in dziękuję, for example. They might go all the way with that.

Also, if it is in the middle of a word, it gets pronunced either as the usual way or "en/em" depending on what the next letter will be.
Same goes for ą. ("ow" / "on/om").

[dj___]

I tend to pronounce all the “ę’s” nasal and all “rz’s” like Czech “ř”.

[alik1989]

In Russian I would ask: Зачем усложнять себе жизнь? :)

Most ę-sounds are denasalised because they are easier to pronounce this way. And I have no clue why anyone would pronounce rz as ř, it's the last sound Czech children learn to utter correctly, because it's the most difficult one.

[mihxal]

Sometimes yes, but TTS seems to not pronounce it at all.

[JerryMcCarthy99]

Fixed, it seems. The new male-voiced recordings do seem to sound the "ę".

[DMR680865]

What case is "him"? O nim I think is locative, but then there is z nim, which I thought would be instrumental?

[JerryMcCarthy99]

Well, according to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/o#Polish , "o" indeed takes locative when the meaning is "about, concerning", although it can take accusative at other times.

From https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/z#Polish, "z" takes instrumental when it means "with".

Finally, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on#Polish shows that "nim" is both locative and instrumental.

HTH.

[alik1989]

Those forms used to look different in Old Polish, but at some point they merged into one. Slavic languages feature a lot a morphological syncretisms (inflections which look the same, but have different functions depending on context).

[alisa488338]

czasownik "think" wyraża czynność umysłową i nie możno go używać w czasie Present Cont, dla tego: I think about him

[alik1989]

Ten czasownik ma kilka znaczeń. Nie można go używać w aspekcie continuous, gdy on służy wyrażeniu czyjejś opinii. (I think that...).

Jeśli jednak chodzi o zastanawianie się nad czymś (właśnie o czynność umysłową), to takich ograniczeń w użyciu nie ma.