Master how to give an opinion about the weather with the key pattern
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| Let’s look at some more examples. |
| Listen and repeat or speak along with the native speakers. |
| Jak gorąco! |
| Jak gorąco! |
| Jak zimno! |
| Jak zimno! |
| Jak duszno! |
| Jak duszno! |
| Jaka brzydka pogoda! |
| Jaka brzydka pogoda! |
| Jaka piękna pogoda! |
| Jaka piękna pogoda! |
| Did you notice how the last two speakers, Mark and I, used slightly longer phrases? |
| Jaka brzydka pogoda! |
| "The weather is bad" |
| Jaka brzydka pogoda! |
| Jaka piękna pogoda! |
| "What beautiful weather." |
| Jaka piękna pogoda! |
| Let's start with pogoda, "weather." Pogoda. Pogoda. |
| In Polish, all nouns have grammatical gender and are either singular or plural. Pogoda is feminine and singular — a fact which will determine the form of other words in the sentence. |
| Before this is piękna, "beautiful." Piękna. Piękna. |
| Piękna is singular and feminine to agree with pogoda. |
| Moving to the front of the sentence, jaka, translating as "what" in this context. Jaka. Jaka. |
| Jaka is singular and feminine to agree with pogoda. |
| All together is Jaka piękna pogoda! "What beautiful weather!." |
| Let's look at the other example, Jaka brzydka pogoda! "What bad weather!" Jaka brzydka pogoda! |
| Starting with pogoda, "weather." Recall, pogoda is feminine and singular — a fact which will determine the form of other words in the sentence. |
| Moving to the start, jaka, “what.” Jaka. |
| Jaka is singular and feminine to agree with pogoda. |
| Next is brzydka, "bad." Brzydka. Brzydka. |
| Note, brzydka is feminine and singular to agree with pogoda. |
| Together, brzydka pogoda is "bad weather." Brzydka pogoda. |
| All together, Jaka brzydka pogoda! "What bad weather!" Jaka brzydka pogoda! |
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