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Colours

This first vocabulary list is about colours! I’ll be putting the noun then the masculine adjective form of the colours and plural for hair. The nouns are rarely used tbh and żółć is more commonly used for bile. 

Podstawowe (Basic) :

white : biel/biały

black : czerń/czarny

gray : szarość/szary 

beige : beż/beżowy

brown : brąz/brązowy

blue : niebieskość/niebieski

green : zieleń/zielony

yellow : żółć/żółty

orange : pomarańczowy

pink : róż/różowy

red : czerwień/czerwony

purple : fiolet/fioletowy

light : jasny

dark : ciemny

a colour : kolor

Odcienie (Shades) :

golden : żłoty, 

silver : srebrny, 

coppery : miedziany

sky blue : błękit/błekitny, 

navy blue : granat/granatowy

apple green : jasna zieleń/jasnozielony, 

lime green : limonkowo zielony, 

bottle green : butelkowa zieleń/w kolorze butelkowej zieleni

mustard : musztardowy, 

fawn : płowy (used for animals)

yellow-green : żółto-zielony

ochre : ochra/w kolorze ochry, 

coral : koralowy

carmine : karmin/karminowy, 

purple-red : purpura/purpurowy

lavender : lawenda/lawendowy, 

lilac : lila/liliowy

Kolory włosów (Hair colours) : 

brown : brązowe 

person with dark brown hair : brunet

blonde : blond

gray : siwy

red : rude

dyed : farbowane

bleached : tlenione or rozjaśnione

highlights : pasemka

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Alphabet and pronunciation

Spelling is probably one of the easiest task while learning polish. We basically spell words the way we hear them. You might find the additional letters and digraphs confusing though and that’s why I’m here today!The Polish language uses the Latin alphabet. At least most of it. We completely dropped Q, V and X, because we simply don’t use those letters. In exchange, we came up with our own letters like Ż, Ź, Ś, Ć, Ó, Ł, Ń, Ą, Ę. As you can see, we only added a few diacritic signs to letters you’re probably already familiar with. We also use digraphs like DZ, DŹ, DŻ, CH, SZ, CZ, RZ and one trigraph - DZI.

One letter sounds :

Ą,ą  [ɔ̃] - pronounced like French bon, it’s a nasal sound if that helps!

Ę, ę  [ɛ̃] - this one is nasal E.

Ć, ć  [t̠͡ɕ] - it’s pronounced a bit like ch (chimney) but softer.

Ł, ł  [w] - pronounced like w in water.

Ń, ń  [ɲ] - it’s a soft N. Pronounced a bit like ni in onion.

Ó, ó  [u] - it’s the same thing as u and there’s no difference in pronuncation (oo like in mood or moon)

Ś, ś [ɕ] - a soft S, pronounced like sh in short but softer.

Ź, ź  [ʑ] -  the ones with kreski (acute accents) don’t really have English equivalents, so it’s hard to give an example. It’s a soft Z.

Ż, ż  [ʐ] - pronounced like s in measure. Exactly the same thing as RZ.

Two letters sounds : 

SZ - sounds like sh in short.

CZ - sounds like ch in cheating.

RZ - pronounced the same way as Ż.

CH - pronounced the same way as H (like h in heart, for example).

DZ - sounds a bit like ‘ts’ or maybe ds in dads.

DŻ - pronounced as d in adjective.

DŹ and DZI are pretty similar in the way they sound. It’s a bit like j in jeans but I’d say it’s even softer.

Hope this helps!

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