Gack!

[fuzzyred]

My poor English brain does not like Polish. I just finished the lesson on determiners, and there are so many variations and interpretations on the words for "all, every, somebody, nobody, everybody, everything, something". Makes translation hard and picking out the pattern even harder. Plus, the word base word for all is "wszyscy". What the fuck even, Polish????

And after that, I started the lesson on numbers, which is ok, BUT Polish is a language that changes the ending of ALL their words based on grammatical case AND gender AND singular/plural. EVEN NUMBERS! So, "one" isn't just "jeden", it can be "jedna" (for feminine things) or "jedno" (for neuter things). And the word for two had even more variations.

I think my poor brain is melting...

Comments

[fuzzyred]

I like the unique verb endings, because it means you can drop the pronoun and still have a cohesive sentence, though it does take getting used to. The different endings for grammatical case... I can see the logic behind it, but I do feel it is unnecessary. It might also be easier to follow if English was a language that did the same thing. It's harder to remember what the "dative case" or "accusative case" is, when English makes no distinction (or indeed any mention) between them.