Table of Contents

Introduction List of abbreviations Alphabet, pronunciation, stress 1. Noun genders; adjective agreement; personal pronouns; być; address forms 2. Nouns and adjectives in the plural 3. Plural of ‘men’ nouns and adjectives 4. Direct object (feminine and neuter) 5. Verbs with present tense -am, -a, -ają 6. Direct object of masculine nouns (accusative case) 7. Prepositions followed by accusative case 8. Direct object (singular) of masculine ‘alive’ nouns 9. Direct object (plural) of masculine ‘men’ nouns 10. Direct object pronouns; prepositional pronouns (accusative) 11. Possession (singular nouns) 12. Possession (plural nouns); whose 13. Genitive case of adjectives 14. Prepositions followed by genitive case 15. Verbs with genitive case object; prepositional pronouns (genitive) 16. Verbs with present tense -em, -e, -eją/-edzą 17. Cardinal numbers 1 to 4 18. Numbers 5 to 20; indefinite numbers; quantities 19. Ordinal numbers 1 to 20; name; age 20. Questions 21. Verbs ending in -ować, -iwać, -awać, -ywać; verb aspects 22. Negation; simple conjunctions; there is; something 23. Indirect object (singular); verbs with present tense -ę, -y, -ą 24. Indirect object (plural); dative case prepositions 25. More verbs with present tense -ę, -y, -ą 26. Dative case of pronouns 27. Pronoun się; verbs with present tense -ię/ę, -i, -ią/ą 28. Instrumental case (nouns, adjectives) 29. Other uses of instrumental case 30. Prepositions followed by instrumental case 31. Verbs with two imperfective forms 32. Locative case (nouns, prepositions) 33. Locative case (adjectives, pronouns) 34. This, that, such, what like, which 35. My, your, etc., own 36. Each, every, all 37.Clock time 38. Być (past, future); days 39. Months; seasons; time expressions 40. Dual-case prepositions Appendix 1 – How grammar works Appendix 2 – Studying an inflected language Appendix 3 – Question words Appendix 4 – Być and mieć – all tenses Appendix 5 – Perfective and imperfective verbs aspects Key to exercises Polish–English vocabulary Index

About the Author

Dana Bielec is the author of the popular Polish: An Essential Grammar and Intermediate Polish: A Grammar and Workbook, both published by Routledge.