Intermediate Polish: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks)

✍ Scribed by Dana Bielec

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Series: Grammar Workbooks
• Edition: New Ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intermediate Polish is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language. Each unit combines clear, concise grammar explanations with examples and exercises to help build confidence and fluency. Features include: * focus on areas of particular confusion such as verbs that are difficult to translate and nouns made from numbers * comprehensive glossary of grammatical terms * reference list of over 250 Polish verbs * full key to all exercises. Suitable for independent learners and students on taught courses, Intermediate Polish, together with its sister volume, Basic Polish, forms a structured course in the essentials of Polish. Dana Bielec is the author of the popular Polish: An Essential Grammar, as well as Basic Polish: A Grammar and Workbook, both published by Routledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Inroduction......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
Unit 1 Verb aspects......Page 16
Unit 2 -ap and -ip verbs: presenttense consonant changes......Page 20
Unit 3 Comparisons: adjectivesin-er and -est......Page 23
Unit 4 Present tense of -nop verbs......Page 32
Unit 5 Short-stem non-wap verbs:padding with ‘j’ (present)......Page 34
Unit 6 Comparisons: adverbs with‘more’ and ‘most’......Page 37
Unit 7 Past tense of mostimperfective verbs;movable person suffixes......Page 46
Unit 8 Past tense of imperfectiveverbs in -ep and -nop......Page 51
Unit 9 Past tense of doubleimperfective verbs......Page 56
Unit 10 Short-stem verbs in -sp and-c (present, past)......Page 60
Unit 11 Modal verbs musiep,chciep,wolep (present,past); because,since......Page 63
Unit 12 Past tense of perfectiveverbs (prefixed);when(ever),as soon as......Page 67
Unit 13 Past tense of perfectiveverbs (stem-changed)......Page 72
Unit 14‘Can’: móc,potrafip,umiep (present, past)......Page 76
Unit 15 Past tense of perfectiveverbs in -op and -nop......Page 80
Unit 16 Unusual verb pairs; politecommands with Proszq......Page 83
Unit 17 Higher numbers and dates......Page 88
Unit 18 Future with byp -imperfective verbs;time expressions......Page 94
Unit 19 Future without byp -perfective verbs; gdy,jak......Page 99
Unit 20 Informal commands......Page 103
Unit 21 Commands with niech;-sand-kolwiek; vocative case......Page 109
Unit 22 Verbs from isp (past, future)......Page 113
Unit 23 Verbs from isp andchodzip (commands);concessions......Page 117
Unit 24 Modal verbs powinienemandmiep (present, past)......Page 120
Unit 25 How verbal prefixes changemeaning; direction to/from......Page 124
Unit 26 Six very precise verbs......Page 129
Unit 27 Simple conditions andwishes;jesli/jeueli,moue......Page 133
Unit 28 Conditions with ‘I would...if’; avoiding ambiguity......Page 138
Unit 29 Modal verbs (future,conditional); ueby;else......Page 142
Unit 30 Impersonal verbs (present);cause and result......Page 149
Unit 31 Impersonal verbs(past, future, conditional)......Page 155
Unit 32 Siq to translate ‘one’and ‘you’......Page 158
Unit 33 Impersonal widap,szychap,czup,znap......Page 161
Unit 34 Present adverbial participlein-oc (while...-ing)......Page 164
Unit 35 Past adverbial participlein-wszy and -zszy(having...)......Page 168
Unit 36 Indefinite numbers; -kanouns from numbers......Page 172
Unit 37 Relative pronoun który;adjectives used as nouns......Page 176
Unit 38 Present adjectival participle(active) - imperfective verbs......Page 182
Unit 39 Present adjectival participles(passive) - imperfectiveverbs......Page 186
Unit 40 Past adjectival participle(passive) - perfective verbs;until,while,before......Page 191
Appendix 1 Prepositions and their cases......Page 197
Appendix 2 Adjective endings......Page 199
Appendix 3 Declension of pronouns......Page 201
Appendix 4Future tense of stem-changed perfective verbs......Page 204
Key to exercises......Page 207
Glossary of grammaticalterms......Page 226
Polish-English verb list......Page 229
Index......Page 236

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Польский язык;Грамматика;