“Practise your Polish” Forum

Course Questions

Course Questions

napisao/la David OLS Community Manager -
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Hello everybody!

How's your learning going? I hope you don't find Polish too difficult. I also hope that you're enjoying the learning materials you can find on our platform!

In case you have any questions regarding specifically the OLS language courses, feel free to ask them here. As always, I'll do my best to answer.


Happy learning!


David, OLS Community Manager – Polish

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Re: Course questions

napisao/la luz bruni -
Cześć David ! Przepraszam, To znowu ja :)
I have a question about something, i can't understand the diference between się and -mnie,cię,go,ją- i mean what is the diference between lubisz cię and lubisz się? I mean its ok that?
Dziękuję ! :D
Odgovor na luz bruni

Re: Course questions

napisao/la David OLS Community Manager -
Cześć Luz!
Nie masz za co przepraszać! Jestem tu, żeby pomóc :)
I think you just gave me (unintentionally) a good idea for a new blog post, thank you :)
First of all, "się" is a reflexive pronoun – you use it whenever the action expressed by a given verb is directed at the person performing this action. If someone does something to him/herself, we use "się".

For example: Myję się - I wash myself
On się myje - he washes himself
Oni się czeszą - they comb themselves

The easy thing is that in Polish, się doesn't change with reflexive verbs, we always use it in this form, regardless of the subject of the sentence. However, się is also used with other verbs that are not usually reflexive in other language, such as uczyć się (to study), cieszyć się (to be glad), these need to be learned by heart :)

As for the other words, such as: mnie, ciebie, etc., these object pronouns - they tell us to whom something was done. 
Lubię cię - I like you
Nie lubię go - I don't like him
Nie zjem ich - I won't eat them

As you can see, się is only used with specific kind of verbs and often (but not always) it is used in reflexive verbs, similar to the English self.
The other pronouns refer to other people, these are basically the case forms of the personal pronouns.

I hope it is clearer now. Please let me know if you need further explanations and more examples :)

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Re: Course questions

napisao/la luz bruni -
Hej David! Dziękuję!
I think that i understand a bit better :D
I think that i was confused because in spanish the reflexive pronouns and the objet pronouns are similar xD grammatical problems haha, thank u for your time! :3
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Re: Course questions

napisao/la David OLS Community Manager -
Hej!
Nie ma za co :)
I don't speak Spanish, but I speak Italian and I think these pronouns are quite similar in both languages.
I actually think in Polish it's a bit easier because for reflexives it's just "się" and nothing else :P
I'm glad that I could help! Let this information sink in during the weekend and let me know, I can think of some more examples.
Happy learning! :)