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Accents in Polish

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In today’s lesson we are going to study the following topic: ”ACCENTS” in Polish

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Accents in Polish

Polish accent is always on next-to-last syllable with few exceptions.

Accent on next-to-last syllable

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

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

In plural forms of past tense accent is on antepenultimate syllable too.

• zrobiliśmy
• widzieliśmy
• chcieliśmy
• chcieliście
• mogliście
• pisaliście
• czytaliście
• widzieliście
• ukradliście
• mieliście

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