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Polish A2: vocabulary and grammar lists

17 flashcard lists in Polish, level A2, written for English speakers.

17 lists · 1,522 cards

Level A2 — elementary: can communicate in simple routine situations.

A few words at this level: serce, Co się stało?, na sprzedaż, widok, rower.

Vocabulary

Polish words for the body, illness and accidents, doctors and medicines, looks and make-up, and danger and the police, such as ból głowy, apteka, przystojny and niebezpieczeństwo.

Polish words for describing and comparing: qualities, colours and materials, and comparisons, such as głęboki, różowy, drewniany, lepiej and najgorszy.

Miscellaneous

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Everyday Polish words on many subjects, from luck and faith to war, kings and queens, such as zwłaszcza, sposób, szczęście, msza, wojna and królowa.

School and work

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Polish words for school and work: subjects and supplies, exams, and the people, places and tasks of work, such as fizyka, linijka, egzamin, kierownik and biuro.

Polish phrases for conversation: wishes (Smacznego!, Powodzenia!), replies (Nie ma problemu.), opinions and guesses (moim zdaniem, chyba) and verbs for talking (wyjaśniać, dyskutować).

Relatives, couples, friends and feelings: dziadkowie, kuzyn / kuzynka, chłopak, zadowolony and zmartwiony, with verbs such as bać się and martwić się / zmartwić się.

Polish words for places in town, directions and where things are, such as ratusz, plac zabaw, róg, po lewej and wzdłuż.

Polish words for free time, sport, games, music, theatre, art and going out, such as mecz, narciarstwo, gra planszowa, koncert and przedstawienie.

Polish words for shops and shopping, prices, paying and saving, and clothes and accessories, such as księgarnia, gotówka, zniżka, sweter and naszyjnik.

Furniture, rooms and things around the house, cleaning, washing and getting ready for bed, such as fotel, lodówka, pralka, sprzątać and wynajmować.

Polish words for drinks, fruit and vegetables, meat, dairy and sweet things, dishes from pasta to sushi, cutlery, ordering in a restaurant, and ways of cooking, such as “kawa”, “jogurt”, “widelec”, “sałatka” and “smażony”.

Polish words for numbers, time and measures: ordinal numbers and hundreds, units and fractions, holidays, and when and how often, such as osiemdziesiąt, kilogram, Wielkanoc and codziennie.

Weather, seasons, landscape, animals, compass points, and countries with their nationalities: temperatura, jesień, las, niedźwiedź, Grecja.

Little words

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Polish little words: pronouns such as “wszystko”, “nikt” and “siebie”, conjunctions such as “dlatego” and “jeżeli”, and prepositions such as “bez” and “oprócz”. These little words often have several translations: the list is practised as flashcards, and you judge your own answer.

Phones, computers, the internet, post and the media: “smartfon”, “klawiatura”, “drukarka”, “poczta”, “kanał”.

Common verbs

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Everyday Polish verbs: bringing and giving back, deciding and trying, standing and lying, keeping and losing, plus a few modal expressions such as “można” and “trzeba”.

Polish words for travelling and getting around: trips and sightseeing, documents and luggage, planes, trains and the road, such as walizka, paszport, lotnisko, peron and autostrada.

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