Very useful. I like the way you keep showing examples which helps keep up vocabulary. Also I like the way you keep the lesson moving. Great way to maintain interest and keep learning. Thanks.
It's lovely to learn Polish when you're French and already know about gendered and numbered nouns, but sometimes I wish I spoke German and not just French, that way learning the cases in Polish would be easier 😅
Thanks for this video! May I ask why you can omit the 'jest' in a sentence like 'to jest mój mąż/to mój mąż' but seemingly not in a sentence like 'to jest smaczne'? Also on the note of 'ono' meaning 'it', is it considered acceptable/polite to refer to human beings as 'ono' if their gender is unknown? In English we'd usually consider it rude or insulting to refer to a human being with 'it', but I'm guessing 'ono' doesn't have those connotations?
Hi! 'Jest' is often omitted in 'To jest/są' sentences (when we indicate a thing or person), especially when there is an adjective or pronoun before the noun. Co to jest? = Co to? Kto to jest? = Kto to? To jest Piotr. = To Piotr. (This is Piotr.) To jest mój dom. = To mój dom. (This is my house.) To są nasze psy. = To nasze psy. (These are our dogs.) To jest fajne miejsce. = To fajne miejsce. (This is a nice place.) To jest dobry pomysł. = To dobry pomysł. (This is good idea.) We usually don't omit 'jest' if this is not an 'To jest'/'To są' type of sentence. To jest dobre. (This is good.) - Here, although it starts with 'To jest', we are not indicating a thing (we are not answering the question 'Co to jest?) but rather we are describing an unspecified object with an adjective. On jest dobry. (He is good.) On jest dobrym lekarzem. (He is a good doctor.) 'Ono' is used towards a thing and person of a neuter grammatical gender, but NOT towards a person of an unknown gender. Dziecko jest w domu. = Ono jest w domu. ('dziecko' is the neuter gender) Zwierzę jest chore. = Ono jest chore. ('zwierzę' is the neuter gender) We can use 'ta osoba' (a person), 'ktoś' (someone), 'pewien człowiek' (a human) to name a person of an unknown gender. Hope this clarifies :)
