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Hello Everyone, 😊
In today’s lesson we are going to study the following topic: ”ACCENTS” in Polish
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Accents in Polish[edit | edit source]
Polish accent is always on next-to-last syllable with few exceptions.
Accent on next-to-last syllable[edit | edit source]
Accent on next-to-last syllable is in majority of words. This gropu includes words of polish origin with except of verb in past tense plural.
As an example:
- woda
- wódeczka
- ryba
- noga
- jedziemy
- pijemy
- słyszymy
- czytają
- chcemy
- rybaczówka
- kwadrat
- niziołek
- gruzini
- ryboczłek
Letter "ó" with acute accent doesn't show place of accent, but just is a remainder of long polish o.
Greek loanwords[edit | edit source]
In greek loanwords with ending -ika, -yka accent is always on antepenultimate syllable. For example:
- matematyka
- arytmetyka
- fizyka
Accent in plural forms of past tense[edit | edit source]
In plural forms of past tense accent is on antepenultimate syllable too.
- zrobiliśmy
- widzieliśmy
- chcieliśmy
- chcieliście
- mogliście
- pisaliście
- czytaliście
- widzieliście
- ukradliście
- mieliście
Videos[edit | edit source]
Polish Accent in English. Polish Pronunciation Mistakes. Polish ...[edit | edit source]
POLISH ACCENT | How Poles speak English - YouTube[edit | edit source]
Accent reduction: pronunciation for Polish speakers - YouTube[edit | edit source]
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]